When he arrived in Lexington before the 2009-10 season, Kentucky coach John Calipari mixed a star-studded freshman class that included John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins with returnees Patrick Patterson, Perry Stevenson and Darius Miller, who were holdovers from previous coach Billy Gillispie's regime. When Kentucky won the national title with freshmen Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist in 2012, the Wildcats leaned on veteran Miller for senior leadership.
In 2014-15, when UK ran the table in the regular season, Willie Cauley-Stein and Alex Poythress were juniors, and the Harrison twins -- Andrew and Aaron -- returned after starting a combined 79 games as freshmen.