{"id":203587,"date":"2025-09-06T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203587\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:02:09","slug":"arafan-diane-cuts-list-to-5-kentucky-basketball-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/203587\/","title":{"rendered":"Arafan Diane cuts list to 5: Kentucky Basketball Recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With high school recruiting revving back up, <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/mbball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kentucky basketball<\/a> is making a move with one of the top bigs in the class of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, Diane has trimmed his list to five schools, and Kentucky made the cut. Joining the Wildcats were the Houston Cougars, Indiana Hoosiers, Virginia Cavaliers, and Arkansas Razorbacks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/news\/arafan-diane-down-to-5-schools-arkansas-houston-indiana-kentucky-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Joe Tipton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Louisville, UConn, Kansas, and Oregon were among the schools cut from consideration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ranked as high as ninth overall in the 2026 class by Rivals, Diane is a 7-foot, 280-pound native of Guinea, located in West Africa. He now plays for Iowa United Prep and has been pursued by many of the nation\u2019s top college basketball programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Diane was planning to visit Arkansas on September 12, but Kentucky will now host him that weekend, with the trip to see the Razorbacks set to come September 19. He\u2019ll also visit Virginia on September 26, Indiana on October 17, and Houston on October 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Safe to say this will be an important stretch coming up that may decide who comes out on top for the No. 1-ranked center in the 2026 class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With high school recruiting revving back up, Kentucky basketball is making a move with one of the top&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1541,41241,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-203587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","10":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-mens-basketball-recruiting","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115154422969941894","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}