NCAA Basketball: Top 5 options for transfer Jordan Brown
By Chris Kern
1. Kentucky
John Calipari has turned Kentucky into one of the top destinations for recruits in all of college basketball. They bring in some of the top-ranked recruiting classes each year and they continue to compete for national championships. Bringing in Brown for them would be a no-brainer even with him needing to sit out a year.
Kentucky has been a winner at each of his stops as a head coach even though he has had some recruiting violations during the previous stints at Umass and Memphis. He won a championship during the 2011-12 season with the Wildcats with the team that featured current NBA superstar Anthony Davis.
They have a high recruiting class again just like normal as they are bringing in the 3rd highest ranked class according to 247sports. It is led by two top ten recruits in Kahlil Whitney and Tyrese Maxey. They also bring in graduate transfer Nate Sestina from Bucknell which is the second straight year they bring in a big man as a graduate transfer after they had Reid Travis this past season.
We have started to see a few players at least start to stay for multiple years at Kentucky which is a bit different than we are used to. Point guard Ashton Hagans is returning for his sophomore season since he wasn’t a projected first-round pick. They’ve had many dominant big men which includes PJ Washington who improved himself into a potential lottery pick after a somewhat disappointing freshman season.
These players most likely won’t play alongside Jordan Brown, so many of his teammates he would play with won’t be here next season, but if he wants the opportunity to play with some of the most talented players in the country then Kentucky should be a top option for him.
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No matter where he ends up he will need to come in and work hard to earn a big role, but there are plenty of schools interested him including some of the best programs in America.