{"id":679978,"date":"2026-06-02T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679978\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:40:18","slug":"rapidly-reacting-to-milan-momcilovics-commitment-to-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679978\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapidly Reacting to Milan Momcilovic&#8217;s commitment to Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks, it finally happened \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/milan-momcilovic-89617\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Momcilovic<\/a> is a WILDCAT!!!<\/p>\n<p>After days of waiting for a decision that felt like it would never come, the Iowa State transfer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/kentucky-wildcats\/news\/iowa-state-transfer-milan-momcilovic-commits-kentucky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his commitment to Kentucky on Monday night<\/a>. The No. 3 overall portal prospect this offseason, Momcilovic chose UK over Louisville and Arizona. This is simply a massive, massive win for head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/mark-pope-132332\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Pope<\/a> ahead of a pivotal third season in Lexington.<\/p>\n<p>Standing at 6-foot-8, Momcilovic was the best three-point shooter (48.7 percent) in all of college basketball last season with the Cyclones. He can score from anywhere on the floor. His addition immediately makes Kentucky a preseason top 25 team and one of the best squads in the SEC. This is arguably the biggest recruiting victory of Pope\u2019s coaching career thus far. <\/p>\n<p>The KSR crew is here to break down what it all means. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More Kentucky News and Views on the KSR YouTube Channel<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Sports Radio has expanded its coverage of the Wildcats in the most ridiculous manner possible on our YouTube Channel. Here you will be able to find interviews with coaches and players, as well as commentary from the KSR crew. From Rapid Reactions following big events to our lengthy lineup of live shows, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCxlgPWNLi8UInV0HHhfSQCg?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">subscribe to the KSR YouTube Channel<\/a> to stay up to date on everything happening around the Big Blue Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Folks, it finally happened \u2014 Milan Momcilovic is a WILDCAT!!! After days of waiting for a decision that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[241596,99],"class_list":["post-679978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-milan-momcilovic-23-pewaukee","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}