Basically never comes off the floor. He was 5 for 9 from the field and 10 for 12 from the line with five assists, after he collected 18 points and six assists in 40 minutes against the Blue Devils. In addition to poor shooting and turnovers, he picked up his second technical of the season. But he and Ulis are among the four Cats in double figures. Labissiere and Briscoe both have a dozen. Mark Alstork is averaging 15.7 points and 3.7 rebounds while JT Yoho is averaging 15.7 points and 5.3 rebounds. “We just didn’t hit the shots that we needed to hit and get the stops that we needed to get”. The senior forward scored 10 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for his first double-double since the first game of his sophomore season when he had 10 points and 13 rebounds against UNC-Asheville. United Kingdom led 13-6. A scoreless Lee also has seven rebounds. He got his first basket on a 3-pointer from the corner with 12:08 left in the second half. Two points for each side.
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Fittingly, Ulis gets the last points of the half on a driving bucket. Keion Brooks led the way for the Raiders with 27 points in that affair.
Friday night’s action could bring new plays and sets we’ve yet to see from the Cats, as Calipari announced on Thursday.
31-22 United Kingdom (3:59 1H) – Ulis is ridiculous.
Referring to another bomb threat about an hour beforehand that turned out to be a false alarm, Kluwe said, “After the first object turned out to be harmless, we got a tip that had to be taken seriously that an attack was being planned”.
Wright State was paced by Grant Benzinger with 19 points.
After a career-high 18 points against Duke, Ulis topped that with 21 points on Friday. On the other end Skal Labissiere dunks.
17-10 United Kingdom (11:07 1H) – Jamal Murray’s turnover tally is climbing quickly, up to three now and all of them pretty bad, allowing the Raiders to hang around. Tyler Ulis is dishing 4.3 assists and Isaiah Briscoe is grabbing 7.5 rebounds. Driving floater, pull-up jumper and then drive to draw a foul.
Grayson Allen, who scored 54 points in Duke’s first two games, was held to six points on 2-for-11 shooting. Charles Matthews follows soon after.
The dunks started happening for UK. Marcus Lee had a double-double against The Blue Devils (10 points, 10 boards). He’s unbelievable.’ You lose to Wright State, ‘Let’s get him – the game has passed him by.
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HAWKINS OUT: In addition to Humphries, United Kingdom will be without junior guard Dominique Hawkins (illness) for tonight’s game. Appearing with Mike Pratt on the UK radio network postgame show, Briscoe admitted he and his teammates weren’t quite as sharp – or motivated – as they were in the United Center, where they played as though Michael Jordan himself were sitting courtside.
