ESPN's 2018 Mock Draft suggests two promising scenarios for Kentucky

Kentucky has six top 30 freshman on its roster next season, but according to ESPN’s latest Mock Draft, only two will be drafted in the 2018 NBA Draft.

In the wake of the news that Marvin Bagley is heading to Duke this fall, Jonathan Givony, formerly of Draft Express, released his first 2018 Mock Draft for ESPN, and he projects that Hamidou Diallo and Nick Richards will be the only Cats drafted next season, at No. 18 and No. 22 respectively. That’s right; Givony doesn’t believe that Kevin Knox, PJ Washington, Jarred Vanderbilt, or any of the other Cats will be drafted in the first OR second round of the 2018 Draft, a jaw-dropping prediction that suggests two scenarios. One, that people are majorly underrating Kentucky’s talent this season; or two, that a huge number of players could return for the 2018-19 season, setting up yet another monster run ala 2014-15. Both scenarios are intriguing, although I think the latter will happen regardless.

If you’re curious, Givony still has Missouri’s Michael Porter Jr. going first in the 2018 Draft, followed by Marvin Bagley and DeAndre Ayton. In yet another sign the SEC will be a man’s league this year, Texas A&M sophomore Robert Williams is projected to go fifth and Alabama’s Collin Sexton eighth.

Read it all for yourself below:

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Then get hyped for the season with this Kevin Knox swaggy tweet:

College Basketball about to be EPIC👀💯

— Kev (@KevKnox) August 15, 2017