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5-Star Guard Prospect Cason Wallace Commits to Kentucky over UTSA, Tennessee, Texas

Kentucky just improved its backcourt in a big way.

Cason Wallace, a 5-star combo guard from Richardson, Texas, committed to the Wildcats on Sunday.

"I chose Kentucky for a lot of different reasons; I built a close relationship with Coach Jai Lucas; he’d been recruiting me for a while," Wallace wrote in a first-person essay for Sports Illustrated. "When I went there, I loved everything about the vibe, and I knew that everybody really wanted me to be there."

Wallace is considered the No. 7 player overall in the Class of 2022, the No.