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The 5-star basketball visits continue with Mikel Brown Jr. on campus this weekend

Kentucky continues to woo the best prospects in the 2025 class and another is on campus this weekend for a visit.

By Mark Knight

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Kentucky Wildcats Head Coach Mark Pope is recruiting his tail off this month and making up time for some of the 2025 5-star players. Pope was hired this offseason, and while many of these 5-star players have been courted by potential basketball programs, Pope is coming late to the party. And yet, he may still end up with the best recruiting class in the country, especially if everything shakes out the way he envisions it.

We know that this weekend, Chris Cenac Jr. is in town on his official visit to Kentucky. He is the top-rated Center in the class, and the 5-star prospect stands at 6'10 "and is still growing. Now, word that another 5-star player is on campus at the same time is Mikel Brown Jr. Brown is one of the best point guards in the class.

Pope is high on Brown, making him one of the recruits he wants to secure in this recruiting cycle. He has a good sell for Brown, mentioning how great he fits into his system and that a point guard like him would help Kentucky get another national championship.

Ironically, the team to beat in the Brown sweepstakes actually seems to be Ole Miss. 24/7 Sports has the crystal ball to the Rebels. This may be why Pope decided this weekend was a good one to bring in Brown as the two football programs face off. What seems to make Ole Miss the favorite is the opposite of what Pope can provide: the Rebels have been recruiting him for a long time.

This isn't the only highly rated point guard that Pope is after in this class, and this weekend, there was also news that came out that Acaden Lewis is indicating that Kentucky may be a favorite to land him. Will this be a problem if one chooses the Wildcats before the other? Potentially but we know from the class that Pope brought in this year (mostly through transfers) that Pope loves having two elite point guards. He has two of the best in the nation for this season Kerr Kriisa and Lamont Butler.

Keep an eye on the basketball recruiting this weekend as Pope is looking to make a splash.

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