Mark Pope is in his third season as the Kentucky head coach. Kentucky is expected to be a Top 25 team this year and make another run in the NCAA tournament in March.

Kentucky opened the season with an 85-57 win over Manhattan. They also just got a massive win on the College Basketball Recruiting trail, as Pope has landed a 7-foot-5 center, according to Jeff Borzello of ESPN.

“Top-10 senior Cherif Millogo has committed to Kentucky, he announced. One of the biggest risers in ESPN's latest rankings update, the 7-foot-5 Millogo is the No. 2 center and No. 8 overall in the SC Next 100. He becomes Mark Pope's highest-ranked recruit at Kentucky,” Borzello posted on X, formerly Twitter.

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The 11th-ranked overall recruit and number two center chose Kentucky over BYU, USC, Louisville, Arizona, and North Carolina, plus other SEC schools, including Arkansas and Tennessee.

This is a developing story with more to come.