Kentucky Basketball: The Stairway To The NBA

[preacher_tom]

http://hoopshabit.com/2015/09/27/kentucky-basketball-stairway-nba/

 

[UKhoopCat]

Terrific ad for UK basketball. I wish every kid that was torn between schools could see this article.

 

[TUL]

Jimmy Page play this at his last show?

 

[Sithlyone]

Hate it when a link is just posted with no context. However after reading the comments here I'm glad I clicked the link. Great Article, below are a few highlights that every parent/guardian and kid should take note of.

• 71 schools have seen at least one player drafted in the first round
• 37 schools have seen at least one player drafted in the lottery
• 12 schools have seen at least one player drafted in the top five
• 4 schools have seen at least one player drafted No. 1 Overall (Kentucky, Duke, Kansas and UNLV)

Duke sent Kyrie Irving in 2011, UNLV sent Anthony Bennett in 2013 and Kansas sent Andrew Wiggins in 2014. Kentucky provided John Wall in 2010, Anthony Davis in 2012 and Karl-Anthony Towns in the recent 2015 draft. And while it didn’t shape up that way, Nerlens Noel would have quite likely gone No. 1 overall in 2013, had it not been for a torn ACL he suffered late in the season.

Kentucky had the most players drafted in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015. In 2013, six teams were tied at two draftees a piece, with Kentucky and Michigan as the headliners with two first round selections each. The only year Kentucky fell short was 2014, and it still managed to churn out two first round picks, including a lottery selection in Julius Randle.

 

[TUL]

A huge part of it is recruiting. As they said in the article...

"Of course, recruiting elite talent certainly aids in sending kids who are basically destined for the league to the league, and as you could expect, it’s another area of college basketball that’s simply being overwhelmed by Calipari and the Wildcats.

5-star recruits between '09-14 UK: 23 Duke/UNC/Arizona: 8 Texas/Kansas: 7 Cuse/Florida/UCLA: 6 Calipari has a clear monopoly in recruiting"

(Although I am not about those numbers...)