Dakari Johnson is the lone Kentucky commit on the McDonald’s All-American East roster. Four of his future teammates are on the West squad in the game set for April 3 at Chicago’s United Center. The way Johnson figures it, the organizers may just have been afraid to put all five future Wildcats on the same team for fear of the havoc they might wreak.
Kentucky and coach John Calipari have the top-ranked recruiting class in the nation.
“I guess they didn’t want the world to see what all five of us could do on the court at the same time,” Johnson, a 6-foot-10 center from Montverde (Fla.) Academy, joked to SNY.tv.
Johnson’s future Kentucky teammates, Andrew and Aaron Harrison, Marcus Lee and James Young, are all on the West side, as is uncommitted forward Aaron Gordon of Archbishop Mitty (Calif.), who is considering Kentucky, Arizona, Oregon and Washington.