Mark Pope and Kentucky gets their first big piece of the 2025 recruiting class with the addition of five star Big Malachi Moreno a top three center in his class and top 30 player overall per 247sports who brings an elite skill set with the ability to block shots and rebound the basketball, with a offensive skill set that is still raw with growth still to come at the college level Moreno has the ability to stretch the floor and shoot the three but has not proven it to be as consistent as it’s a work in progress. Mark Pope looks to bring in another fellow five star and in-state prospect Jasper Johnson, who first played his high school basketball at Woodford County and later transferred to Link Academy, in Missouri, who is focusing on a main three of Kentucky, North Carolina, and Alabama. The recruitment has gone back-and-forth in the last couple of days as Alabama was seen as the favorite, but now he’s starting to lean back to Kentucky as of late by many media members around the recruitment. This is a great start to Mark Pope‘s first recruiting class in the Pope era as he looks to bring a new style of recruiting that Kentucky fans have never seen before.
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