On Thursday, Kentucky head coach Mark Pope added his ninth transfer portal player, BYU’s Jaxson Robinson, to the Wildcats’ roster ahead of the 2024-25 season. Pope was facing a full-on rebuild when he accepted the job nearly two months ago, and he’s done a tremendous job of quickly turning nothing into a possible Top 25 group.
Just how good of a job has he done? Well, according to our friend Evan Miyakawa of EvanMiya.com, Pope has crafted the fourth-best incoming transfer portal class in the country. Miyakawa ranks four of UK’s nine transfers as five-star prospects, four as four-stars, and one as a two-star.
The only schools ahead of Kentucky are (in order) St. John’s, Louisville, and Vanderbilt. Additionally, only one other school has brought in four five-stars this offseason, the Michigan Wolverines. Seven of Kentucky’s nine incoming transfers rank among the Top 100 portal prospects.
Not a bad start for Pope…
5-star transfers
- No. 36 | PF Andrew Carr (Wake Forest)
- No. 40 | SG Otega Oweh (Oklahoma)
- No. 62 | PG Kerr Kriisa (West Virginia)
- No. 65 | PG Lamont Butler (San Diego State)
4-star transfers
- No. 78 | C Brandon Garrison (Oklahoma State)
- No. 84 | SG Koby Brea (Dayton)
- No. 88 | SG Jaxson Robinson (BYU)
- No. 126 | PF Amari Williams (Drexel)
2-star transfer
- No. 1,113 | PF Ansley Almonor (Fairleigh Dickinson)
EvanMiya.com Top 10 incoming transfer classes (May 31)
- St. John’s
- Louisville
- Vanderbilt
- Kentucky
- Michigan
- Arkansas
- Indiana
- Missouri
- Texas Tech
- Memphis
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