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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 01-13-2017, 10:17 AM:

Another season of college basketball in Lexington, Kentucky, another innovation by head coach John Calipari that could change the game.

On Saturday, Hamidou Diallo, an absurdly athletic 18-year-old shooting guard from New York City who's ranked 10th in his class, committed to play basketball at the University of Kentucky. In and of itself, that fact—one of the top prospects of the 2017 high school class joining Calipari's already loaded recruiting class—is not of particular note. Calipari has had the top-ranked or second-ranked recruiting class for each of his eight seasons at Kentucky. Next year will be more of the same.

But here's what's game-changing about Diallo's commitment: Instead of finishing out his postgraduate season at Putnam Science Academy, a private boarding school in Connecticut, Diallo is enrolling at Kentucky during semester break and joining the roster immediately, per ESPN.com's Jeff Borzello.

Calipari, who has harnessed the power of one-and-dones to change college basketball over the past decade, is now ushering in an age featuring a different breed of player: the one-and-a-half-and-done.

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