There are ~4,500 scholarship D1 NCAAB players in any given year. Only ~20 of them are 5* recruits. That's less than 1%. Here is the first in a three-part series appreciating the overwhelming majority of college basketball players -- the non-5*s.
John Calipari's most magnificent Kentucky teams have been headlined primarily by dynamic 5* freshmen.
But it would be foolish and ignorant to posit that UK would have claimed the NCAAT in '12 without Darius Miller or that the '14-'15 team would have reached the Final Four without Willie Cauley-Stein's defense. Do you believe that UK could have upset #1 seed Ohio State in the '11 NCAAT without Josh Harrellson's double-double or DeAndre Liggins' 15 points?