Kentucky males’s basketball to hold open tryout

• Myron Medcalf, ESPN Personnel WriterAug 2, 2024

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Kentucky males’s basketball coach Mark Pope announced Friday that the program will host an open tryout later on this month for potential walk-ons for the 2024-25 season.The Wildcats, a preseason top-25 group, are asking interested players to send their height, weight, position and contact details for their high school basketball coach.The tryout

is open to all academically eligible, full-time Kentucky students. According to the announcement, the group will narrow its list of prospective walk-ons and invite preferred candidates to the tryout on Aug. 30.

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Though unusual for a blueblood college basketball program, Kentucky is not the first to hold an open tryout.Just last year, Louisville coach Kenny Payne held such a tryout and asked the public to send out walk-ons”our way “because the group was desperate to include more skill through a difficult season.In females’s basketball, TCU was forced to add 4 walk-ons last season through an open tryout after multiple players on the lineup were sidelined with injuries.To be clear, Kentucky is not because situation.The Wildcats will be led by transfers Jaxson Robinson and Lamont Butler, in addition to a collection of

skill that Pope– who helped Kentucky win a national title in 1996– has actually assembled for his very first year in Lexington.