Despite his short tenure, Penny Hardaway has already made a major impact on the college basketball recruiting world.
Not only has he managed to steer several top prospects away from the traditional blue-blood powerhouses but he has also maintained a strong local pipeline.
Hardaway has already signed six Memphis area players in his first two recruiting classes, one of those being James Wiseman, who will join next year’s roster.
Matthew Murrell is a 2020 four-star shooting guard from Whitehaven High School in Memphis, Tennessee. According to Matthew Bain of the Des Moines Register, Kentucky could be jumping into the mix after watching him in recent AAU events.