For the new coaching staff at Kentucky, the mission is clear: re-establish dominance and lock down the state’s borders. That mission is facing its first major tests in the recruitment of Tyran Stokes, and Tay Kinney, a dynamic guard from Newport, KY, who recently included the Wildcats in his top eight schools.
The list is a who's who of college basketball royalty: Kentucky, Louisville, Oregon, Texas, Kansas, Miami (FL), Indiana, and Arkansas. But for UK fans, two of those names stand out as major threats for the homegrown talent. Arch-rival, Louisville, and former coach, John Calipari, now at Arkansas.