Kentucky basketball’s 2024 recruiting class has doubled in size over the last few days.
And Tuesday brought the biggest prize thus far.
Jayden Quaintance, a consensus five-star center from Word of God Christian Academy in North Carolina, committed to the Wildcats. He chose UK over his other finalist, Missouri.
The four major recruiting services — Rivals, 247Sports, ESPN and On3 — ranked the 6-foot-10, 230-pound Quaintance among the top 15 players in the country in the 2024 cycle, led by On3, where he’s No. 4. 247Sports placed him ninth, followed by Rivals (No. 11) and ESPN (14). Per the 247Sports Composite rankings, he’s the No. 8 prospect nationally in 2024, and the No. 2 player at his position (behind Flory Bidunga, a Kansas commit).
Quaintance’s announcement came two days after four-star guard Travis Perry, the all-time leading scorer in Kentucky high school basketball history, committed to UK’s 2024 class.
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