Kentucky’s fab five of underclassmen all positioned to be elite pros

Walter Cornett April 13, 2012
NEW ORLEANS, LA - APRIL 02: Anthony Davis #23 and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist #14 of the Kentucky Wildcats react late in the second half while taking on the Kansas Jayhawks in the National Championship Game of the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome on April 2, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)

Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)

While the championship trophy they won last week is taking a tour around the Commonwealth of Kentucky, while the last of their peers are making public declarations to enter the 2012 NBA Draft, while their coaches are busy signing up guys to (potentially) replace them, the five underclassmen who were the key players in Kentucky’s eighth NCAA championship are mostly silent.  That was the privilege extended to them by Kentucky coach John Calipari, who declared after the Wildcats won the national championship that the new, fake NCAA deadline for filing to enter the NBA Draft would not apply to his underclassmen.

 

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