composite rankings of recruiting sites compiled by 247Sports, those three schools landed only two of the top 12 recruits in this year’s freshman class: Kentucky guards Brandon Boston Jr. (No.
5) and Terrence Clarke (No. 8).In the meantime, four of the top seven players chose Oklahoma State, Southern California, Stanford and Florida State.Jerry Meyer, the director of basketball scouting at 247Sports, says he noticed this trend starting in 2015.
That’s the year four of the top eight recruits selected LSU (Ben Simmons), California (Jaylen Brown and Ivan Rabb) and Mississippi State (Malik Newman).
One year earlier, seven of the top 13 prospects had chosen either Duke, Kentucky or Kansas.“That was when like, boom, things started to change,”.