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Adou Thiero has a commitment to defense and the weight room

One of the newest members of the Kentucky Basketball program, Adou Thiero arrived on campus in early June as one of the three incoming freshmen on the team. A late-bloomer in his high school class, Thiero didn’t receive his scholarship offer to Kentucky until March of this year, only a few months before he moved into the Lodge.

He was unranked when John Calipari extended the invitation.

Thiero has since made a bigger name for himself as a member of On3’s fifth-best recruiting class but he still doesn’t carry the expectations of UK’s two other freshmen, Cason Wallace and Chris Livingston, two five-star McDonald’s All-Americans.