As many including the BBL expected, the nation’s consensus top high school player, Brandon Knight, Wednesday announced his commitment to play basketball at the University of Kentucky next year.
Knight, from the Pine Crest School in Boca Raton, Florida, chose the Wildcats over a marquee list of suitors that includes the likes of Kansas, Syracuse and Connecticut.
Expected to start and contribute heavily right away, Knight joins big man Enes Kanter and wing Stacey Poole as UK’s lone 2010-’11 recruits. Many in the Big Blue Nation expect this commitment to open the door for perhaps several other big name players, most notably C.J. Leslie, an athletic big man who played his high school ball at the same Raleigh, N.C. school as John Wall.
In related news, the Cats also picked up a huge commitment for 2011, when Michael Gilchrist, considered by many the most coveted player in this year’s junior class, also verbally committed to the Wildcats.
After a tough two weeks since UK’s disappointing loss to West Virginia in the Elite Eight, this was a big day for Kentucky.
