2026-2027 Roster discussion thread

[bucsrule8872]

Diallo / Wilkins / M Williams
Wilkins / Morton
Kam Williams/ Hawthorne / Noah
McBride / Kam Williams / Noah
Moreno / Dynes / Potter

Let's roll, baby. Big things on the horizon for Kentucky basketball.

Hope we add a couple more guys. I really don’t see McBride being our starting 4. If he is, it will be a long, long season.

[Rondo#9]

UKHoops01 How you love that roster projection my boy?

[Rondo#9]

Diallo / Wilkins / M Williams
Wilkins / Morton
Kam Williams/ Hawthorne / Noah
McBride / Kam Williams / Noah
Moreno / Dynes / Potter

Let's roll, baby. Big things on the horizon for Kentucky basketball.

[Helix]

I remember during my hockey days the whole team going to all you can eat buffets and putting in work. One guy even brought his own bag and pulled out some orange chicken on the bus ride after haha

Minnesotan here. Never play, but you had me a hockey :-)

[Tomcats1990]

Pope signs Hawthorne’s little brother a high school PG. Maybe Pope is going 4 guards and a C this season.

[UKHoops01]

Hey Wichita state and Arkansas State wanted him. No seriously he is a practice player. If we get one or both of the guys visiting tomorrow we will have 4 available spots left. We have 9 right now. 3 that are starters, 1 (Kam) that will probably start now but needs to work to get much better this coming year and then if in a pinch Noah or Hawthorne, not that Hawthorne but the other Hawthorne. We need 2 big time guys 1 at PF and 1 shooter.

Yikes. This is sounding like one of Tubby's final rosters or a BCG roster, minus Patterson and Meeks.

Actually, you could add prime Patterson and Meeks to this year's upcoming roster and I think the results would be about the same as they were with BCG!

[Pobilly]

It almost seems like Pope is in full desperation mode now to simply fill out a roster, after waiting oh so patiently for certain priority guys to sign.

Hey Wichita state and Arkansas State wanted him. No seriously he is a practice player. If we get one or both of the guys visiting tomorrow we will have 4 available spots left. We have 9 right now. 3 that are starters, 1 (Kam) that will probably start now but needs to work to get much better this coming year and then if in a pinch Noah or Hawthorne, not that Hawthorne but the other Hawthorne. We need 2 big time guys 1 at PF and 1 shooter.

[UKHoops01]

COllege basketball does not have walkons any longer. He is one of 15 players. The 15 could be partial scholarship or full scholarship.

It almost seems like Pope is in full desperation mode now to simply fill out a roster, after waiting oh so patiently for certain priority guys to sign.

[WeWant9]

COllege basketball does not have walkons any longer. He is one of 15 players. The 15 could be partial scholarship or full scholarship.

Gotcha, hard to keep up at times with these rules

[Pobilly]

I am hoping he is just a walk-on, but not seeing that mentioned anywhere

COllege basketball does not have walkons any longer. He is one of 15 players. The 15 could be partial scholarship or full scholarship.

[UKHoops01]

KY signed another PG out of high school: Braden Hawthorne brother Zyon Hawthorne.

https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-w...with-kentucky/

OK... I'm officially going to join several other fans in their "WTF is going on" cries.

Bringing on an assistant coach to get his son to commit and then bringing in the unheralded younger brother of a redshirt who just re-upped for next year for our only incoming freshmen recruits??? If this doesn't reek of desperation, I don't know what does.

[WeWant9]

I am hoping he is just a walk-on, but not seeing that mentioned anywhere

[Pobilly]

KY signed another PG out of high school: Braden Hawthorne brother Zyon Hawthorne.

https://www.on3.com/teams/kentucky-w...with-kentucky/

[WeWant9]

And visits a few all-you-can-eat buffets...LOL

I remember during my hockey days the whole team going to all you can eat buffets and putting in work. One guy even brought his own bag and pulled out some orange chicken on the bus ride after haha

[UKHoops01]

Hopefully he lives in the gym this summer.

And visits a few all-you-can-eat buffets...LOL