After receiving a commitment from Terrence Clarke last week, Kentucky halted its pursuit of 5-star combo guard Jalen Green.

The Wildcats have also parted ways with Lakewood (Calif.) Mayfair 5-star shooting guard Joshua Christopher, CatsPause.com has learned.

Christopher will no longer take his scheduled unofficial visit to UK for Big Blue Madness on Oct. 11 or his official visit to Kentucky on Jan. 21. Despite recruiting on the west coast last week, Wildcats head coach John Calipari did not visit Christopher, and has no plans to do so, during the fall recruiting period.

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Ranked No. 7 overall in the 2020 class by 247Sports, Christopher (6-5, 215) released a top five of Arizona State, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and UCLA back on July 24. He has scheduled official visits to UCLA (Jan. 24) and Michigan (Mar. 7).

Clarke (6-7, 185), who chose Kentucky over Boston College, Duke, Memphis, Texas Tech and UCLA on Sept. 14, also announced he plans to reclassify to 2020, where he is now ranked as the No. 1 shooting guard and No. 4 overall prospect by 247Sports.

Christopher's father, Laron, spoke to CatsPause.com last week prior to Clarke's commitment.

"Terrence can play," the elder Christopher said. "We saw him at the Slam event. He's a hooper."

Christopher said he was unsure as to how a Clarke commitment would affect his son's status with Kentucky.

"It would be on them to figure that out. They know what they need to staff a team," Christopher said. "That's never anything we worry about or try to be concerned with. We don't have any say in that. They don't come to us and say, 'What do you think about this guy and would that be a good fit?'

For a time, it looked as though Kentucky had a shot at landing both Green and Christopher, who have played together on and off since the seventh grade and had spoken publicly about potentially teaming up at the college level. Christopher, whose older brother, Patrick, is the god-brother of UK Hall of Famer Tayshaun Prince, grew up dreaming of playing for the Wildcats.

Ranked No. 3 overall in 2020, Green is fresh off an official visit to Oregon and is slated to see Auburn and Memphis in the coming weeks. He will also no longer take his scheduled official visit to Kentucky in mid-October.

247Sports Director of Recruiting Evan Daniels first hinted at a Kentucky split with Green and Christopher in a recent #AskEvan recruiting mailbag.

"If Terrence Clarke lands at Kentucky and he reclassifies, I think it would effectively end the Wildcats recruitments of Josh Christopher and Jalen Green," Daniels wrote. "That would give them three perimeter prospects in the class already."

In addition to Clarke, the Wildcats also hold a commitment from Chatsworth (Calif.) Sierra Canyon 5-star shooting guard BJ Boston Jr., who became Kentucky's first 2020 commitment on the heels of an official visit to Lexington in late July.

That means Calipari holds commitments from two of the top three shooting guards in the 2020 class in addition to a pair of top-50 recruits in St. Louis (Mo.) Vashon 4-star wing Cam'Ron Fletcher and Camden (N.J.) 4-star power forward Lance Ware, who round out the nation's No. 1 recruiting class.

With Green and Christopher officially out of the picture, Kentucky now turns its attention Montverde (Fla.) Academy 5-star combo guard and No. 2 overall prospect Cade Cunningham and possibly Canadian 5-star combo guard Karim Mane or a grad transfer in the spring to fill its point guard spot in 2020.

The Wildcats are casting a wide net to fill out its frontcourt and are still actively recruiting 5-star power forwards Greg Brown, Isaiah Todd and Isaiah Jackson, who took an official visit to Kentucky the weekend of Aug. 31.