John Calipari and the Kentucky men’s basketball staff spent a pretty penny on recruiting during the 2022 fiscal year — $1,167,817 in total. In fact, those recruiting efforts surpassed those of Mark Stoops and his staff financially — $917,657 — the only SEC program to spend more on basketball recruiting than football.
That’s according to data collected by USA TODAY in partnership with the Knight-Newhouse Data project at Syracuse University, courtesy of Ryan Black of The Courier Journal.
That time period accounts for Kentucky’s recruitment of its most recent roster, namely freshmen signees Cason Wallace, Chris Livingston, Ugonna Onyenso and Adou Thiero.