SEC Basketball Recruiting: Every team’s top class from past decade
By Dakota Cox
Georgia Bulldogs: 2019
This take is very similar to what I said about Florida on the previous slide, except it’s on a slightly smaller scale. The recruiting classes of previous years for Georgia have not quite changed their trajectory. They have consistently been a bottom team in their conference.
In fact, I believe head coach Tom Crean was brought in partially to recruit better talent to UGA. They have the Atlanta area, and any good recruit should be able to retain in-state talent. Coach Crean has made many comments about needing to get new guys in for next year, and he has done just that.
Georgia has a top-8 class that stars with Anthony Edwards, the second-best player in the nation. An Atlanta talent, Edwards can bring a lot of hope to Georgia in his freshman year. Crean also corralled four more 4-star talents, all of which are in the top 100. They won’t all start, but this group has the ability to be key contributors to the Bulldogs for however long they choose to stay in college. This group reminds me of Alabama’s 2017 class. You get the star, then you get a handful of players who become strong leaders for when the star inevitably leaves early.
The only other class I considered for this spot was the 2011 class. They were good, but it was mostly because they had Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. He’s a star, but so is Anthony Edwards, and Edwards will have a better supporting cast around him with his class that KCP did with his.