Patterson chooses Kentucky
Patrick Patterson has finally ended his eons-long recruitment saga by choosing Kentucky over Florida and Duke. The surprise here is not that Duke lost out, but that the presumptive favorite, Florida, was unable to reunite Patterson with his good buddy, incoming Gators guard Jai Lucas. This is a pretty impressive early splash by UK's new coach, Billy Gillispie.
As for Duke, it's now going to have to make do with Lance Thomas and Brian Zoubek in the low post and hope to land Greg Monroe in the Class of 2008.