Duke basketball: Ranking the chances of 10 finalists for Patrick Baldwin Jr.

2. Kentucky

Pick any high-profile battle for a top-five high school prospect across the past decade; chances are that Kentucky is among the finalists, if not the victor. So there’s no surprise it made the cut for Patrick Baldwin Jr. And because of John Calipari‘s renowned success at luring five-stars to Lexington, there is no sense in doubting his shot at picking up this one as well, even if his top recruiting rival, Mike Krzyzewski, seems to have been the frontrunner from the get-go.

Here’s what Baldwin Jr. recently said to Rivals about the NBA-friendly Wildcats:

“Their pitch has just been a lot of things that we knew going in, which was that they produce a lot of NBA talent, play in the SEC…really good teams and talent in that league. A really big pitch is that they know that I am really talented, but if you come to Kentucky, that they aren’t guaranteeing you anything…it is just going to be like a pro-style practice where they have scouts there and at almost all of their games…it is just going to be about who wants it more, which is what Kentucky has always been about with all the prospects they have recruited.”

Looks like a 15 PERCENT CHANCE the Kentucky Wildcats land Patrick Baldwin Jr.