Kentucky Wildcats Headlines: Isaiah Briscoe best three-point shooter in country?

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After the seven Kentucky Wildcats departed for the NBA this year, the big feat was that Kentucky lacked that sharpshooting three-point threat that Devin Booker filled. The addition of Mychal Mulder helped to ease most of those fears but John Calipari may have already had that threat all along in Isaiah Briscoe. Briscoe never got enough credit for his long-range shooting, but he did just win the three-point shooting contest in the Ballislife All Star Game. Granted, Briscoe was not up against the top talent in the country, but you have to love his swagger after.

In addition, fellow Kentucky Wildcats commit Skal Labissiere and possibly future Cat Thon Maker were co-MVP’s of the event.

Meanwhile the public head scratching and general confusion of Jaylen Brown picking Cal over Calipari and other basketball bluebloods continued over the weekend. Some wonder if Kentucky Wildcats basketball recruiting has lost it.

"I’m not saying Calipari can’t reach more Final Fours or win more titles at Kentucky, but no college basketball team has ever gone 38-0 and even that team fell short of the title game. Kentucky has made the Final Four in four of the past five seasons — largely with one-and-done players. This 2015 recruiting class is underwhelming compared to the past few classes, especially after seven Wildcats left early for the 2015 NBA Draft. The 2015-16 roster now also seems underwhelming by Kentucky’s recent standards and only one title came from those recent Wildcat juggernauts. It’s not as if Kentucky wasn’t trying to get more blue-chip guys to come aboard for the 2015-16 campaign before sending them on their way to shake Adam Silver’s hand on draft night. They missed on seven All-Americans who they were in on as of late March. Jaylen Brown even called Kentucky the, “best basketball program in the country,” to reporters at the McDonald’s All-American media day and decided not to go there. Suddenly, Calipari and Kentucky’s system of landing the best one-and-done players has taken a serious hit. The Wildcats have been beaten by Duke at their own game for two consecutive recruiting classes and the Blue Devils were the ones hoisting hardware in Indianapolis a few weeks ago. Are these spring recruiting misses merely an outlier, or the end of an era of recruiting dominance for Calipari and Kentucky? Did the platoon system Calipari used during the 2014-15 season mean that elite players in the Class of 2015 didn’t want to sacrifice minutes and shots to be apart of Kentucky’s program?"

There may be another name to get to know for the Kentucky Wildcats as we enter the month of May. Former SMU commit LeGerald Vick may reclassify into the class of 2015. He was originally a member of this class but decided to go to prep school for a year and play in 2016. Now that he has re-opened his commitment, he may come back into the 2015 class. There is no official Kentucky Wildcats interest yet, but the Wildcats may get involved.

"All spring long Vick has been extremely impressive during the Under Armour Association with Team Thad. Vick is putting up extremely impressive numbers right now averaging 14.1 points and 6.4 rebounds per game, led by a very impressive 25 point and 10 rebound performance against DC Premier. The decision of Vick to open up his recruitment was confirmed by sources. Also it is a very intriguing decision because it means Vick might not be locked in to going into the class of 2016. Vick, who is extremely athletic at 6-foot-4, was initially a member of the 2015 class, and if he decided to go back into his original class would become clearly the top immediately eligible wing in the country, and probably the best uncommitted player in the country in his class regardless of position. Before picking SMU, Vick was offered by schools such as Georgia Tech, Memphis, Tennessee, and Ole Miss. With wings such as Jaylen Brown, Kenny Williams, and Brandon Ingram making their decisions in the past two weeks, Vick would likely be someone fielding a lot of phone calls from the schools that missed out on those targets who were previously seen as the best available on the wing."

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