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Kentucky Wildcats Quickies: De'Aaron Fox Decision Edition

Get the basketball Yahtzee dice ready...

By Jason Marcum

The Kentucky Wildcats will likely add one of the top players in 2016 class today in the form of De'Aaron Fox.

A five-star point guard out of Texas, Fox is ranked as one of the five-best '16 prospects by most recruiting services. He's also possibly the next great one-and-done guard that John Calipari coaches. Fox would also join Sacha Killeya-Jones and Wenyen Gabriel to help form what's shaping up to be one of, if not the top recruiting class.

Or as we call it, a normal year in Kentucky.

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Your Quickies

Women's basketball recruit Duvall sidelined by tumor
UK commitment and Bullitt East star Lindsey Duvall will miss at least four to six months because of a tumor discovered on her left leg. Duvall will undergo surgery today at Norton Cancer Institute in Louisville, where doctors will determine what type of tumor she has. Our thoughts and prayers are with Lindsey and her family.

Recruiting Q&A: Kentucky coach John Calipari
With the early signing period beginning Wednesday in college hoops, ESPN's Paul Biancardi sits down with Kentucky coach John Calipari to talk recruiting.

Are the Sacramento Kings coming after Calipari?
The Big Lead reports that John Calipari may be a target of Kings owner Vivek Ranadive. "The Kings over-drafting Willie Cauley-Stein 6th last summer was mostly due to Ranadive’s friendship with Calipari. Ditto the signing of Rajon Rondo. In early October, The Big Lead has learned that Ranadive cleared everything off his schedule one week to jet to Lexington, Kentucky at the last minute at the behest of Calipari for a Kentucky basketball event."

Making The Case For Patience
There is a portion of the Kentucky football fan base that is ready to pull the plug on the Mark Stoops era, but lets have a little patience and recall how long it took before for UK to recover from a dark period.

Kentucky has physical practice to get ready for Vanderbilt
Mark Stoops says Kentucky would keep its foot on the gas pedal, not backing off physical practices as the Wildcats did late last year. Hopefully, that changes the end result to this season.

Breaking down UK's 3 QB commiments
Rivals.com's Justin Rowland breaks down UK commiments Gunnar Hoak, Walker Wood and Mac Jones, all of whom plan to play quarterback when they get to Lexington.

Early signing period: SEC superlatives
247 Sports' Jerry Meyer says UK signee Weyen Gabriel is the best rebounder among SEC commits.

3 years isn't enough time for Stoops to complete restoration project
The Cats are a 4-5 team, no better, no worse, that finishes with three winnable games. Doesn't mean UK will win. It does mean UK has a reasonable chance to win.

Albany head coach Will Brown previews matchup with UK
Albany Great Danes head coach Will Brown is aware of the challenge ahead of his team, but he feels good about his squad and is ready for the Cats.

Sixteen UK football commits move on to next round
State championship dreams are still within reach for several future Kentucky Wildcats. Sixteen players will play next weekend in the playoffs.

Vanderbilt's 5 impact players to watch vs. Kentucky
The Commodores will need these five will need to play well for Vandy to win Saturday: Obviously, Kentucky will need to ensure they don't to get the win themselves.

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