The next UK basketball season will be shaped as much — probably more — by the decisions of players already on the Wildcats’ roster than the choices of the high school recruits who are still considering joining the program.
Prospects such as E.J. Montgomery, the top available post player in the 2018 class, and Ashton Hagans and James Wiseman, two top-10 juniors who might still reclassify to 2018, would certainly help UK tremendously.
But it’ll be players like Kevin Knox, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Hamidou Diallo, PJ Washington, Jarred Vanderbilt, Nick Richards and Wenyen Gabriel, who have all been on NBA Draft prospect lists during the season, that will decide how realistic the expectations for next season’s team will be.