catmandoo
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posted 06-18-2020 10:44 PM
With recruiting being one of the few continuing basketball activities at the present time, this seems like a good moment to rank history's best efforts in that area.
By "history," we mean the one-and-done era. The NBA's eligibility rule has been the law of the recruiting land now for 15 years. Plenty long enough, in other words, to compile some rankings.
1. Kentucky 2013: Julius Randle (No. 3), Andrew Harrison (No. 5), Dakari Johnson (No. 7), James Young (No. 8), Aaron Harrison (No. 9), Marcus Lee (No. 25)
When it was finally signed and delivered, John Calipari's 2013 class was considered by many to be perhaps the greatest recruiting class of all time. It had everything. Five top-10 prospects, six McDonald's All Americans. There was top-end talent and depth in the class. Randle was the prize of the class, choosing Kentucky over Kansas, Florida and Texas. The elite backcourt of Andrew and Aaron Harrison gave Calipari the No. 1 prospect at three different positions. Johnson was a dominant big man, and Young was a smooth-scoring wing. To add to it, late bloomer Lee joined the group. Calipari also added two in-state prospects in three-stars Derek Willis and Dominique Hawkins. It's clearly the best recruiting class of the one-and-done era, and even a Duke group that included the top three prospects in the country doesn't come close.
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