Jon Scheyer’s early and stunning recruit success, along with Kentucky’s John Calipari’s recruiting resurgence, has reignited the long-running Duke-Kentucky recruiting rivalry.
Kentucky.com poses three questions about this:
- With NIL rights now a major factor, how will that affect recruting for both juggernauts?
- Will Jon Scheyer, just 34, be able to mold groups based on one-and-done freshmen into dominant teams?
- With Penny Hardaway signing both Emoni Bates and Jalen Duren, is Memphis about to join the party at the top?
Well let’s look at these things.
First, Duke is a tremendous national brand and Kentucky is Kentucky.