This is the final installment of our Top Recruit Series, which has outlined the recruiting history since 2000 for each of the seven main basketball conferences. This column focuses on the SEC.)
What's amazing about this list of the top 25 recruits to sign with SEC programs since 2000 isn't that 15 of the 25 are Kentucky players. It's that all 15 were enrolled by John Calipari, who didn't get the Kentucky job until 2009. In other words, Calipari has out-recruited the entire rest of the SEC since 2000 even though the rest of the league has nine more years of recruiting classes under consideration here than Calipari.