{"id":717866,"date":"2026-04-25T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/717866\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T17:09:14","slug":"kentucky-basketball-targets-tyran-stokes-and-miikka-muurinen-could-make-decisions-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/717866\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Basketball targets Tyran Stokes and Miikka Muurinen could make decisions on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/mbball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kentucky Basketball<\/a> continues to fill out its roster, one of its top remaining recruits is set to make a college decision on Monday, and another could follow suit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">On Saturday, 5-star forward Miikka Muurinen revealed that he will make his college choice on Monday, April 27. The 6-foot-10 big man is ranked 55th overall in the 2026 class by <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/miikka-muurinen-46144609\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">247 Sports Composite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oh, and Tyran Stokes may also be announcing his decision on Monday, according to Jeff Goodman, though his report is far less certain, so this could just be another twist in a recruitment that\u2019s been chock-full of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kentucky is obviously all-in on getting Stokes, the No. 1 overall recruit in the 2026 class, but for now, the Kansas Jayhawks are seen as the significant favorite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">My guess is that the Wildcats will not be the pick for either player if both decisions do come on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Kentucky Basketball continues to fill out its roster, one of its top remaining recruits is set to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,38124,244,245,8582],"class_list":{"0":"post-717866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball-news","10":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","11":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-mens-basketball-recruiting","12":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116466454557893059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}