Calipari Just Got the No. 1 Class. At Arkansas. With a Player Pope Visited.

Mark Pope flew to see Miikka Muurinen, then flew to see Tyran Stokes — and this week both picked someone else. Muurinen chose Arkansas Monday morning. Stokes chose Kansas on national TV Tuesday night. And John Calipari, the man Kentucky fired, just signed the No. 1 recruiting class in America at the program Big Blue Nation thought it had been promoted past. Justin McBride is a real consolation — a 6-foot-7 James Madison transfer who shot 40 percent from three and committed the same Tuesday Stokes broke fans' hearts — but the Caleb Wilson loss last spring looks the same as this one, and the pattern doesn't end with hot takes. It ends with March.