Kentucky basketball offers more prospects in the 2027 recruiting class
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- Kentucky basketball offers scholarships to Nasir Anderson and Beckham Black.
- Anderson and Black are both five-star point guards in the 2027 recruiting class.
- UK has now offered scholarships to five players from the 2027 class.
Mark Pope and Kentucky have extended two more scholarship offers to recruits from the high school junior class.
On Monday morning, point guard Nasir Anderson announced on social media that he’d earned a scholarship offer from Kentucky. According to the 247Sports Composite, Anderson is a five-star recruit in the 2027 class. He’s ranked as the No. 8 national recruit.
And on Monday night, fellow class of 2027 point guard Beckham Black also announced online that he’d picked up a scholarship offer from the Wildcats. Black is also a five-star point guard recruit who is ranked as the No. 22 national prospect in the 2027 class.
There are now five players in the 2027 recruiting class with a Kentucky scholarship offer. Anderson and Black join power forwards Marcus Spears Jr. and CJ Rosser and center Obinna Ekezie Jr. in this regard.
The Wildcats also have a scholarship offer out to small forward Baba Oladotun, but Oladotun has reclassified from the 2027 to the 2026 recruiting group.
A native of Georgia, Anderson will play his junior season at Prolific Prep, one of the top high school programs in the nation. Previously located in California, Prolific Prep recently relocated to Florida.
Anderson is ranked by the 247Sports Composite as the top point guard in the 2027 recruiting class. The 6-foot-4 playmaker also holds scholarship offers from the likes of Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Kansas, Louisville, Missouri and North Carolina, among other programs. (Missouri is currently the top-ranked SEC school when it comes to recruiting the 2026 class of prospects).
The 16-year-old Anderson will be teammates at Prolific Prep this season with standout shooting guard Caleb Holt, one of the top players in the 2026 class. Holt took a recruiting visit to Kentucky earlier this month.
Members of the Kentucky coaching staff visited both Anderson and Holt at Prolific Prep last week. UK assistant coach Mikhail McLean, a rising coaching star who signed a new contract with Kentucky this offseason, is helping lead the Cats’ recruitment of Anderson.
One of Anderson’s top performances as an emerging basketball star came in front of McLean over the summer at the FIBA Under-16 AmeriCup in Mexico. As part of the gold medal-winning USA Basketball team, Anderson averaged 12.3 points, 6.8 assists and 3.5 steals per game. Anderson — who was teammates on the winning U.S. squad with Rosser and Spears — was named the MVP of the AmeriCup.
Anderson was also a standout performer this summer at the NBPA Top 100 Camp in South Carolina, a top evaluation setting with Kentucky coaches present.
Black, a 6-foot-3 floor general, was also part of the American team that won the FIBA Under-16 AmeriCup this summer in Mexico. At that event, Black averaged 6.7 points, 6.5 assists and 3.3 steals per game.
A native of Texas, Black is teammates at Southeastern Prep with both Ekezie and Rosser.
Previously, Black has reported scholarship offers from the likes of Auburn, Mississippi State, Southern California, Texas and Texas Tech, among other schools. Black is the younger brother of Anthony Black, who played one season at Arkansas in 2022-23 before being selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2023 NBA draft.
This story was originally published September 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM.
