Duke and Kentucky deserve their places at Nos. 1 and 2, respectively, in the 2018 recruiting rankings. The level of talent in those classes is unmatched around the college basketball world.
As the blue-blood programs stock up on valued NBA-caliber prospects, though, Villanova is quietly doing the same thing it's always done—and at a higher level than recent it recently has.
Jay Wright and Co. entered the April signing period holding the No. 13 class in the country. That's pretty good, right? After all, basketball fans probably expect it from a program with two national championships in the last three years and is perennially a top-ranked team.