The recruitment of Shareef O’Neal just became one of the biggest recruiting storylines for UK in the 2018 class.
Not only is O’Neal a highly-regarded prospect that most schools would want, but he’s also good buddies with another big-time recruit in the Class of 2018.
For a refresher, O’Neal committed to Arizona over the summer, which, at the time, was quite surprising given that he was drawing plenty of major college interest. However, O’Neal plays high school basketball in California, so the thinking was he’d play college ball somewhere out West.
But getting O’Neal also gave Arizona a leg up in the recruitment of Bol Bol, regarded as a top-five prospect in every recruiting service.