UK picked up a commitment from highly touted basketball star D.J. Jeffries on Monday night, the first half of John Calipari’s two-part plan for a recruiting coup in his old stomping grounds.
Jeffries is a 6-foot-8 junior forward from Olive Branch, Miss., which is located just across the Tennessee border from the basketball hotbed of Memphis, where Calipari, of course, coached for nine seasons before coming to Lexington.
Residing in Memphis these days is James Wiseman, a 6-11 power forward — originally from Nashville — and the No. 1 overall prospect in the class of 2019.