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Mark Pope landed his first five-star recruit as the head coach at Kentucky last week, Jasper Johnson deciding to stay home and suit up for the Wildcats over Alabama and North Carolina. It gave UK a second top-25 commitment to start its 2025 class, the Lexington native joining Georgetown’s own Malachi Moreno to get things rolling. What led Johnson to that decision after a back-and-forth recruitment, especially coming down the home stretch? “I would say coming down to it, it was definitely a tough decision for the past couple months. I was down to three to five schools, but I was really just pra…

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