Mark Pope pulled off one of his biggest recruiting surprises when he signed 6-foot-8 Braydon Hawthorne, a four-star wing prospect ranked in the top 40 in his recruiting class.
The Kentucky coach already had what looked like a loaded roster when Hawthorne, a one-time West Virginia commit from Beckley, W.Va., chose the Cats over Duke, Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Pittsburgh.
However, this was not a fluke because Kentucky had started recruiting Hawthorne last summer…