7-foot center Adrame Diongue includes Kentucky among top 5 schools

A new class of 2022 basketball recruit has popped up on the Kentucky Wildcats radar.

Adrame Diongue, a seven-foot senior out of AZ Compass Prep who is ranked by the On3 Consensus as a four-star prospect and top 60 player, announced his top five potential college choices on Wednesday night and UK made the cut. Joining the ‘Cats are UNLV, Kansas, Texas Tech, and Washington State. If you recognize the school name AZ Compass Prep, that would be because it’s the same program TyTy Washington attended before making the jump to Kentucky.

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Despite the inclusion of UK in his top five, Diongue does not currently hold an offer from the ‘Cats. He only recently started hearing from the Kentucky staff, when assistant coach Chin Coleman reached out and expressed interest earlier this week, according to On3’s Joe Tipton. Diongue still has all five of his official visits available, which he will plan out sometime next week.

Diongue, who has only been playing basketball for three years now, recently spoke with On3’s Jamie Shaw to describe his game.

“I run the floor well, grab rebounds and block everything,” Diongue said. “I’m reading the game better now and showing more on offense. I watch Kevin Garnett, the way he tries to dunk the ball every time he touches it; I’m trying to do that…I grew up playing soccer. Soccer helped me with being able to get up and down the floor and with my quickness and defense.”

Diongue has been steadily increasing his stock in recent months, enough so that Kentucky felt the need to reach out. If he sets up an official visit with the ‘Cats next week, we’ll have a much clearer idea of how serious the interest from UK truly is.