LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky men’s basketball team’s signee class will once again be well represented on the 2022 McDonald’s All American Game roster.
Fall signees Chris Livingston and Cason Wallace are the latest “burger boys” who were selected to the annual roster. Kentucky is one of seven programs to have multiple selections in 2022.
This is the 45th season rosters for the McDonald’s All American game have been picked. After a two-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the game will return to action on March 28 in Chicago.
With the latest selections, UK has signed 40 McDonald’s All Americans out of high school during the John Calipari era, more than any other school in the country during that time period. Multiple players from each of Calipari’s signing classes have been tabbed McDonald’s All Americans, including six in 2013 and five in 2017.
Kentucky has signed 72 McDonald’s All Americans since the game began in 1977, including current Wildcat Daimion Collins (2021).
UK’s current signing haul, which also includes Skyy Clarke and Shaedon Sharpe, have all inked national letters of intent with UK. All four players are consensus four- or five-star prospects and all are ranked in the top 25 by at least one major national recruiting service.
In all but one season in the Calipari era, the Wildcats have signed a top-three recruiting class according to the Recruiting Services Consensus Index, which tallies major recruiting rankings and plugs them into a formula to calculate a consensus ranking. With the fall additions, Kentucky has signed 66 top-50 recruits, 52 top-25 players and 28 top-10 players (according to Rivals) in what will now be Calipari’s 14 recruiting classes at Kentucky.
UK can only comment on prospects who have signed official paperwork with the university. The spring signing period begins April 13.
Recruiting Class Rankings under Calipari
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | |
| Rivals | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | TBD |
| 247Sports | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | TBD |
| ESPN | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | TBD |
| RSCI | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | T |