John Wall will forever be tied to the University of Kentucky.
In one season with the Wildcats, the point guard was a consensus first-team All American, SEC Player of the Year and helped reboot a program that had fallen below its own enormous standards. He just never would've landed in Lexington had head coach John Calipari not jumped there first.
In an interview with 247Sports.com's Evan Daniels, Wall said he was ready to commit to Calipari at Memphis before the coach let him know he was taking the job at Kentucky:
“He called me and told me he was about to change and I was like, ‘That’s fine, I like Kentucky anyway, I loved everything about their fanbase when I took a visit there.