John Calipari has been a tenacious recruiter from the moment he set foot on Kentucky’s campus, raking in top-ranked recruiting classes year in and year out. Just yesterday, UK’s incoming recruiting class was officially ranked No. 1 by all of the major outlets, making it the fourth consensus No. 1 recruiting class of the John Calipari Era.
But how do his individual classes stack up against one another? And where does that fit in with the rest of college basketball?
Yesterday, ESPN’s Jeff Borzello published a breakdown of the top 25 recruiting classes since the beginning of the one-and-done era, and unsurprisingly, every one of Kentucky’s classes under Coach Cal made the list.