LEXINGTON, Ky. — The basketball recruiting rankings for the class of 2022 have been finalized, and the Kentucky Wildcats are quite a bit further down the list than usual.
UK holds the No. 10 overall spot in the final Recruiting Services Consensus Index rankings for the 2022 cycle. The RSCI, which has been around since 1998, annually compiles the nation’s top recruiting classes. The website takes player rankings from several major services and calculates a composite ranking for every top prospect, using a simple formula to rank the nation’s top classes. Once the RSCI player rankings are calculated, the nation’s No. 1 recruit is worth 100 points, with the No. 2 recruit at 99 points, and so on.
Jeff Crume, who runs the RSCI site, used 2022 rankings from 247Sports, Rivals.com, ESPN, On3.com and longtime national analyst Van Coleman this year. Crume noted to the Herald-Leader that this is the first time Kentucky has ended up outside of the top five nationally since John Calipari arrived as the program’s head coach with the 2009 class.
