Take a breath, Kentucky basketball fans. A whirlwind week of roster activity for the Wildcats has come and gone. Mark Pope and his coaching staff are nearly done with putting together the 2025-26 UK basketball roster, and that group of scholarship players projects to have a bit of something for everyone.

That's because UK will lose at least seven players from the 2024-25 roster. All seven were seniors. Six no longer had any eligibility remaining: Ansley Almonor, Koby Brea, Lamont Butler, Andrew Carr,