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JUCO team rule landed Mulder at Kentucky, not Wichita State

That was Marshall’s plan for Mulder, so he said in his pitch, as he recruited Mulder for two years at Vincennes University, one of the premier junior college basketball programs in the country. Wichita State had been recruiting him since the beginning and the interest was 100 percent mutual.

But then something very unexpected happened in the spring of 2015 after Mulder played his last game in Vincennes: John Calipari and the University of Kentucky came into the picture. And when that happens, things change, momentum swings, and “Kentucky eats first,” as Cal has said in the past.