NCAA Basketball: Biggest takeaways from the 2019 recruiting classes

The 2019 NCAA Basketball recruiting cycle is over and players are headed to their schools of choice. Here are the biggest takeaways from the class.

The 2019-20 college hoops season is still months away, but with the 2019 NCAA Basketball Recruiting class all wrapped up, we generally know what teams will look like at the start of the new year.

While last year’s recruiting class was considered very top-heavy and only a handful of schools landed those difference makers, this year’s class is thought of as a much deeper group of prospects.

They will be much more spread out across the college basketball landscape, too, as no program landed more than two five-star prospects (Duke and Kentucky each had four last year).

This is best seen at the top of the recruiting rankings as well. Three different players – James Wiseman, Anthony Edwards, Cole Anthony – held the No. 1 ranking as the nation’s top prospect at some point over the last two years, and center Isaiah Stewart cracked the top three later in the cycle.

What are the biggest takeaways from the 2019 recruiting class, how are their decisions shaping the future of college basketball, and what should fans expect moving forward? We break it all down in this recruiting Rauf Report, starting with that widespread distribution of talent.