Updated ESPN Top 100 Rankings

[GoldenBoy16]

JJJ-27th
Deonte-39th
Duane-53rd

JJJ fell a spot, Deonte jumped about 15 and I believe Duane jumped up 6 spots. Wow, looks like we are going to have some impact freshman!!! 

[KaKawwImAnEagle]

Also notable, Joel Embiid jumped all the way up to 6.

 http://espn.go.com/college-sports/basketball/recruiting/playerrankings/_/order/true

[Les Nessman]

I'm pumped about our class but Kentucky is unreal. They have 50% of the top 10 and have signed a top 10 player for every position on the court.
PG - #5 Andrew Harrison
SG - #9 Aaron Harrison
SF - #8 James Young
PF - #3 Julius Randle
C - #7 Dakari Johnson

Has there ever been a stronger recruiting class? Were the Fab 5 all top 10 players? I realize these are all rankings and whether they all pan out is another story, but man that just seems incredible to me.

[GoldenZebra]

JJJ-27th
Deonte-39th
Duane-53rd

JJJ fell a spot, Deonte jumped about 15 and I believe Duane jumped up 6 spots. Wow, looks like we are going to have some impact freshman!!! 

we will see...bout impact

[Windyplayer]

I'm pumped about our class but Kentucky is unreal. They have 50% of the top 10 and have signed a top 10 player for every position on the court.
PG - #5 Andrew Harrison
SG - #9 Aaron Harrison
SF - #8 James Young
PF - #3 Julius Randle
C - #7 Dakari Johnson

Has there ever been a stronger recruiting class? Were the Fab 5 all top 10 players? I realize these are all rankings and whether they all pan out is another story, but man that just seems incredible to me.

Do you hear that beeping sound? Get out of the way of the Brinks truck.

[Groin_pull]

I'm pumped about our class but Kentucky is unreal. They have 50% of the top 10 and have signed a top 10 player for every position on the court.
PG - #5 Andrew Harrison
SG - #9 Aaron Harrison
SF - #8 James Young
PF - #3 Julius Randle
C - #7 Dakari Johnson

Has there ever been a stronger recruiting class? Were the Fab 5 all top 10 players? I realize these are all rankings and whether they all pan out is another story, but man that just seems incredible to me.

And they could be adding Wiggins too.

[Otule's Glass Eye]

Luke Fischer also went up a lot, Matt Thomas dropped.

[denverMU]

Can someone please explain to me how Kentucky has a recruiting class of at least 8 new players and 9 returning players for a total of 17, 4 players over the scholarship limit, how do they get away with that?

[Newsdreams]

Can someone please explain to me how Kentucky has a recruiting class of at least 8 new players and 9 returning players for a total of 17, 4 players over the scholarship limit, how do they get away with that?

$$$$$

[Lennys Tap]

Did I miss Bronson Koenig?

[Dawson Rental]

Did I miss Bronson Koenig?

Didn't you hear?  Bronson is so far above everyone else, no one is ranking him at all because it would be disrespectful to rank him among mere HS players.

[Dawson Rental]

I'm pumped about our class but Kentucky is unreal. They have 50% of the top 10 and have signed a top 10 player for every position on the court.
PG - #5 Andrew Harrison
SG - #9 Aaron Harrison
SF - #8 James Young
PF - #3 Julius Randle
C - #7 Dakari Johnson

Has there ever been a stronger recruiting class? Were the Fab 5 all top 10 players? I realize these are all rankings and whether they all pan out is another story, but man that just seems incredible to me.

No the Fab 5 were not all top 10.  IIRC, Webber, Howard and Rose were all top 15.

[WI inferiority Complexes]

No the Fab 5 were not all top 10.  IIRC, Webber, Howard and Rose were all top 15.

Chris Webber was ranked #1, Juwan Howard was ranked #3, Jalen Rose was ranked #6, Jimmy King was ranked #9, and Ray Jackson was ranked #84. All but Jackson participated in the McDonald's All-American Game in 1991.

[Sunbelt15]

Do you hear that beeping sound? Get out of the way of the Brinks truck.

From Bank of America. Corruption at its finest!

[MarquetteDano]

There is going to be some vacation for Kentucky in their future.  And I am not talking about the kind you spend in Aruba.

I dont want to hear about everybody wants to go to Kentucky because it is a bluebood, Calipari, NBA success, et al.

People denying that Kentucky is cheating are like the people saying real estate prices are sticky downward or the meteoric rise in the market in the late 90's was "different this time".

Vacation will come.  Probably enough in the future that Calipari wont care but it will happen.

[The Process]

There is going to be some vacation for Kentucky in their future.  And I am not talking about the kind you spend in Aruba.

I dont want to hear about everybody wants to go to Kentucky because it is a bluebood, Calipari, NBA success, et al.

People denying that Kentucky is cheating are like the people saying real estate prices are sticky downward or the meteoric rise in the market in the late 90's was "different this time".

Vacation will come.  Probably enough in the future that Calipari wont care but it will happen.

If evidence is found that Kentucky is indeed cheating in that fashion I would expect a SMU style vacation for their basketball program.

[Chili]

If evidence is found that Kentucky is indeed cheating in that fashion I would expect a SMU style vacation for their Western Kentucky's basketball program.

Fixed

[ecompt]

If evidence is found that Kentucky is indeed cheating in that fashion I would expect a SMU style vacation for their basketball program.

Except that UK sells 24,000 tickets a game. The NCAA may look at them and give them a behind-the-scenes warning, but they won't shut down a program that is a money-making machine.  

[Ellenson Guerrero]

While I'd be willing to bet that Cal is in fact cheating somehow, can't deny the fact that he has successfully created a minor league team for the NBA where recruits know they can go a year and regardless of outcome they will be drafted (watch what happens to this year's UK guys draft night and they couldn't even make the tourney).

[Coleman]

Back to the original topic, where do these updated ranking put our incoming class overall? Is it a top 10 class?

Further, is this a higher ranked class than the 3 amigos (not saying they will have as good of MU careers, just wondering where their incoming rankings were)

[Marqus Howard]

Back to the original topic, where do these updated ranking put our incoming class overall? Is it a top 10 class?

11th

[swoopem]

Back to the original topic, where do these updated ranking put our incoming class overall? Is it a top 10 class?

Further, is this a higher ranked class than the 3 amigos (not saying they will have as good of MU careers, just wondering where their incoming rankings were)

I'm not sure where the amigos were ranked because I wasn't following recruiting at the time but I think they were all in between 50-100 so I'm pretty sure this class, on paper, is much better. Also I've been wondering for a while what other schools were those guys considering, who did we beat out?

[willie warrior]

11th

11th--hard to believe with the studs coming in. Must keep getting these types to hang in the top 25 annually.

[Aughnanure]

If evidence is found that Kentucky is indeed cheating in that fashion I would expect a SMU style vacation for their basketball program.

NCAA will never put the hammer down on a program that hard again. Especially not Kentucky.

[The Equalizer]

11th

The bad news in this report is for the league.  Villanova is the only other Big East class ranked among the top 40 (at #31).   The AAC has three top 40 classes (#4 Memphis, #22 USF, #24 Cincy).   The SEC has 3 in the top 10 (#1 Kentucky, #9 LSU, #10 Florida).
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