“Acaden is one of the most popular players in this entire class, and everyone wants to play with him.”
The Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball program has officially signed class of 2025 guards Acaden Lewis and Jasper Johnson, the school announced Thursday.
Lewis, a 6-foot-2 lefty point guard from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., is a consensus top-50 prospect ranked as high as 20th overall by Rivals.
“Acaden Lewis is so much of what you want to find in a great point guard,” Kentucky head coach Mark Pope said in a press release. “He has incredible vision. He’s got a beautiful stroke. He can get to the rim and finish, can make every pass, and already understands the probing nature of a point guard. He has this calm, hungry, unemotional demeanor that you look forward to in a leader. I would say he has some Anthony Epps-qualities of being a calm, tough, banner-hanging leader that gets us really excited.
“Acaden is one of the most popular players in this entire class, and everyone wants to play with him. I absolutely love the fact that he has earned this, from being a lightly recruited prospect to a guy who everyone was chasing this summer.”
Johnson, a 6-foot-4 combo guard and Lexington native, now plays at Overtime Elite in Atlanta, Georgia. He’s a consensus top-30 recruit ranked as high as 13th overall by ESPN and 247 Sports.
“Jasper Johnson is the most dangerous scorer in all of high school basketball,” said Pope. “He has a panache and a flair that is going to be loved by all of BBN. He has a fearless mindset on the court and is also a massive gravity player, where the whole defense has to shift out to him at 27 feet. His family has a great legacy here at Kentucky and he may just write the most profound chapter of them all.”
That gives Kentucky three signatures for the early signing period after center Malachi Moreno signed with the Cats on Wednesday.
