Vanderbilt may unseat UK for SEC’s best recruiting class in 2018

Posted Dec 3, 2017
There’s a surprising development in the nation’s recruiting landscape, as Vanderbilt could end up with a top-three recruiting class in 2018. Vanderbilt head coach Bryce Drew won over five-star point guard Darius Garland to keep him away from Kentucky, Indiana, Duke and UCLA, and then he went and did the same with five-star forward Simi Shittu. (A Sea of Blue)

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