define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); recruiting classes – Rush The Court http://rushthecourt.net The Independent Voice of College Basketball Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:28:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.9 http://rushthecourt.net http://rushthecourt.net/wp-content/mbp-favicon/RTC.jpg Rush The Court Kentucky’s Ridiculous Recruiting Class: Not Good Enough to Beat MJ, But Perhaps Everyone Else http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/16/kentuckys-ridiculous-recruiting-class-not-good-enough-to-beat-mj-but-perhaps-everyone-else/ http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/16/kentuckys-ridiculous-recruiting-class-not-good-enough-to-beat-mj-but-perhaps-everyone-else/#respond Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:45:19 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/?p=96677

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How any Kentucky basketball fan, coming off the most disappointing season of John Calipari’s Kentucky tenure, could turn to 2013-14 with anything less than a 2012-level romp of a national title as a baseline expectation is beyond my limited capacity for understanding hoops-obsessed fan bases. The Wildcats are bringing in what’s being billed as the best recruiting class of all-time, built on the backs of five McDonald’s All Americans, including the nation’s top power forward (Julius Randle), point guard (Andrew Harrison), shooting guard (Aaron Harrison) and center (Dakari Johnson), and [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2013/04/16/kentuckys-ridiculous-recruiting-class-not-good-enough-to-beat-mj-but-perhaps-everyone-else/feed/ 0 Vegas Odds: Check-In http://rushthecourt.net/2007/05/16/vegas-odds-check-in/ http://rushthecourt.net/2007/05/16/vegas-odds-check-in/#respond Wed, 16 May 2007 21:24:39 +0000 http://rushthecourt.net/2007/05/16/vegas-odds-check-in/

Now that the all the recruits in the Class of 2007 have been tidily gift-wrapped for their respective schools (Patrick Patterson, the lone remaining unsigned star of the class, announced for Kentucky today), we can take a look to see how that impacts the public (read: Vegas) perception of how good teams will be in 2007-08. Granted, we won’t have a true snapshot until the early entry withdrawal deadline has passed next month (June 18), but this should give us a bit of insight into how each team is being evaluated in light of their existing losses and incoming [...]]]> http://rushthecourt.net/2007/05/16/vegas-odds-check-in/feed/ 0