College basketball recruiting is a year-round, 365-day grind, one that never really ends for coaches and their assistants. Fans spend years tracking the players that their favorite school is after, yet by the time one class signs, the coaching staff is already onto the next class. And frankly, the one after that too.
That’s also what made Kentucky’s recruitment of five-star wing Johnny Juzang so fascinating to follow this spring. Yes, Juzang was a well-known player nationally. But publicly he was assumed to be a member of the class of 2020. And publicly the list of colleges he was interested in appeared to be defending champion Virginia, Kansas, and a couple others on the West Coast.