Kentucky owns a 7-1 record over South Carolina since 2014. Second-year head coach Shane Beamer will be looking to change that sooner rather than later. The best way to do that is through recruiting.
In Beamer’s first full recruiting class at Carolina, the Gamecocks signed 21 players but just one top-300 recruit. Kentucky signed 20 players and seven recruits who were top-300 recruits. The Wildcats had the No. 19 class in average star rating (88.68) and South Carolina checked in at No. 32 (87.01).
Score one offseason win for Stoops and his program. In the class of 2023, both the Wildcats and Gamecocks are off to similar recruiting starts with less than 10 commits in each class, but Kentucky has the only top-300 recruit with Shamar Porter (No.