Louisville basketball recruiting is starting to pick up in the class of 2020. We look at the top point guard and combo guard options for Chris Mack.
With so much talk surrounding Louisville football recruiting and the first summer in the tenure of new head coach Scott Satterfield, there’s not been much focus put on basketball, especially recruiting. But that doesn’t mean that Chris Mack and his Louisville basketball staff haven’t been hard at work this summer, quite the contrary in fact.
We put together our first “ideal recruiting class” earlier this spring, but since then, Mack has extended offers to a ton of the top players in the class of 2020. Between the Top 100 camp earlier this summer, and Peach Jam a few weeks back, the board for Chris Mack seems to be getting longer and longer in the second live period of the summer.
The Cards are still locked in on names like Caleb Love, Isaiah Jackson, Hunter Dickinson, Jay Scrubb, and a few other recruits in the class that we’ve examined closer, but how will the latest offers from Mack impact the overall picture of the class of 2020?
Just by looking at the offers Mack and company have extended, we see where their primary focuses lie. First off, we know that the Cards are going to lose four seniors at the conclusion of the 2019-2020 season, including guards Fresh Kimble and Ryan McMahon, big man Steven Enoch, and combo forward Dwayne Sutton. It’s almost a guarantee that wing Jordan Nwora will be off to the NBA, after what could very well be an ACC Player of the Year, National Player of the Year, and First Team All-American type of season.
That will leave the Cards with five spots open, assuming there are no transfers or other roster moves and at this point Mack still has all five spots to fill as there are no players committed at this point.
Let’s take a deeper look at how the big board stands at this point in our minds, and how the new offers could impact things.