At one point, 7-foot-3 phenom Bol Bol was deemed a lock to end up at the University of Kentucky. A consensus top-five recruit in the nation playing at Findlay Prep, Bol said Kentucky was the school he always rooted for growing up and it was “mind-blowing” when he received an offer from John Calipari and the Wildcats.
“I always rooted for Kentucky,” Bol said in a Players’ Tribune post. “In Kansas, cheering for the Wildcats is like against the law. So I started telling telling people that I was cheering for Kentucky because I wanted to go to school there.