Calipari Wraps Up Stellar Recruiting Class

World Cup betting players don’t have to worry about recruiting that much as players are funneled from the youth to the senior teams.  That’s not the way it goes in college basketball, where coaches and their assistants are constantly out on the road trying to find the next big star, and no one has been better at it over the past few seasons than John Calipari.

Calipari’s 2010 recruiting class is stacked as he has four of the top 21 players in the Rivals150, including Enes Kanter, Brandon Knight, Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb.  Knight and Lamb played with each other in the MacDonald’s High School All-American game, and they’ll probably be this year’s edition of John Wall and Eric Bledsoe in the Kentucky backcourt.  Jones and Kanter aren’t as big as DeMarcus Cousins and Daniel Orton, the Wildcats’ big game that entered their games into the draft, but Kanter’s game is very similar to Cousins in the post, while Jones has a lot of upside at both ends of the floor.

This may not have the pure talent that last year’s group had, and obviously there is no impact player in the vein of Wall, although Knight is wildly athletic and loves to defend as much as he loves to make offensive plays.  The Wildcats should be one of the top teams in the nation again thanks to Calipari’s recruiting magic, and while it may not lead to a national title, the betting odds are good that more top-notch players will eventually end up in Lexington.