Kentucky Wildcat's 5 for Wednesday: DeAndre Daniels will decide by end of week
By Paul Jordan
According to Jerry Tipton, the DeAndre Daniels decision will come this week:
"IMG Academy Coach Andy Borman wrote in an e-mail message that he expects highly-regarded prospect DeAndre Daniels to make a college choice by the end of the week."
This of course, is no big news, but considering the BBN expected the decision on Saturday, it’s nice to be reaffirmed that a decision is eventually coming soon.
Meanwhile last night, John Calipari and Orlando Antigua traveled to Wichita Kansas, to view 2012 recruit Perry Ellis. Ellis scored 21 points in front of the Kentucky contingent and Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel, who is also in the final six schools for Ellis.
Seth Davis recently released his annual “stock report” of college basketball teams and not surprisingly, he suggested that you buy the stock in the Kentucky Wildcats and if you have stock in the Dirty Birds …… yea, you wanna sell that. Talk about junk bonds, eh?
"KENTUCKY (12-2, No. 10): BUYYou might assume I think pretty highly of the ‘Cats to rate them a Buy when they’re ranked 10th and coming off a big win at Louisville. And you’re right. It’s ironic that this team is both younger and less talented than last year’s, yet it appears to be more mature, efficient, poised and therefore more capable of reaching the Final Four. A lot of that is attributable to the preternaturally poised freshmen, but the team’s upperclassmen (Darius Miller, DeAndre Liggins and Josh Harrelson) have provided critical stability. Instead of constantly looking for the right combinations and trying to keep everybody happy, John Calipari has settled in to a steady seven-man rotation, which helps continuity. While I tend to pick against young teams in the NCAA tournament, they make for great stock purchases in early January because they tend to get better quickly. This rating also reflects my low opinion of the SEC East, which has been a major disappointment outside of UK.LOUISVILLE (11-2, NR): SELLI’m not sure exactly what the Cardinals did to get ranked before dropping out of the AP poll following last Friday’s drubbing by Kentucky. They beat Butler and UNLV at home, but also lost to Drexel. Now they have to play for up to six weeks without their leading rebounder, Rakeem Buckles, who is out with a broken finger. If you want to hold on to this stock for another couple of weeks, go ahead, but beware the gauntlet that begins on Jan. 29: at UConn, at Georgetown, home versus DePaul, at Notre Dame, home versus Syracuse. Anyone want to predict Louisville will be ranked after that?"
And the debate continues as to which freshman class was better: this year or last years. The folks at Tailgate Review offers up some debate (and charts) on the topic.
Last night, UK Hoops lost a tough game on the road at Cameron Indoor Stadium to the #3 Lady Dookies 54-48. As expected, the Dookies used a couple of questionable calls in their favor, which led to them scoring the last 8 points of the game. Keyla Snowden scored 15 points and Victoria Dunlap 10 for the Hoops squad, which fell to 11-2.
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