Kentucky Lands Former Lexington Star Jerone Morton in Major Homecoming Move

By Rowan Fisher-ShottonShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.It hasn’t been smooth sailing for Mark Pope on the recruiting trail or in the portal lately.In the transfer portal, Kentucky missed on top point guard Robert Wright III, who returned to BYU, and highly regarded forward Donnie Freeman, who chose St. John's after two years at Syracuse.The headline miss, however, came April 29, when No. 1 overall recruit Tyran Stokes committed to Kansas despite months of heavy pursuit, arguably Pope’s biggest swing-and-miss to date.

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