Franck Kepnang has become the second former University of Washington basketball player to transfer to Kentucky, where the 6-foot-11 center will reunite with guard Zoom Diallo and join one of the nation's blue-blood programs.

Those two will play for Wildcats coach Mark Pope, himself a one-time UW forward during his long ago playing career.

On Saturday, Kepnang made his plans known and will spend a seventh college basketball season in Lexington, Kentucky, after playing four in Montlake and his first two at Oregon.

This past winter, Kepnang appeared in 27 outings and started 25 -- the closest he came to a full season during four injury-filled years with the Huskies.

Diallo was a 29-game starter while playing in 33 games for a 16-17 UW team.

So the lure of Kentucky has done a lot of damage to Danny Sprinkle's rebuilding efforts by taking two starters from him during this particular transfer portal period.

Kentucky adds 24-year-old Washington transfer big man Franck Kepnang.

He initially committed to…