Blair Green was not planning on staying home.
When the scholarship offers started rolling in early in her high school career, the 6-foot Harlan County girls basketball star envisioned California beaches or Tennessee tradition in her future.
“I never thought I would go to Kentucky,” Green says. “I wanted to be different, just do my own thing.”
Yet on a recruiting visit to UK before Green’s junior season of high school, the Wildcats coaches showed her a video. It consisted of past players from the commonwealth — A’dia Mathies, Makayla Epps, Maci Morris — who stayed home to play for the Cats and became stars.