Down to his fourth alternative on Point Guard seeks No. 17 Kentucky for a certain texture overall when it is worthy of Vanderbilt on Tuesday evening in Lexington, KY.
In its first start of the season, a loss of 82-78 at Texas on Saturday, the beginner Travis Perry ended with six points and three assists in 28 minutes, and coach Mark Popes updates on the first three options Monday were not optimistic.
Lamont Butler is an average of 12.5 points, 4.6 assists and 2.8 returns per match but made room for ongoing Axel pain on February 11. He has not returned to living practice, Pope said.
Jaxson Robinson (13.3 PPG, 3.7 RPG, 1.7 APG) does not even use his injured right hand/wrist yet, said the coach.
Finally, the Arizona transfer Kerr Kriisa was originally expected to return now after the photo operation, but the Pope acknowledged the possibility that Kriisa would take a medical red -shirt season.
“Right now he is trying to get back to this thing, and the recovery has probably been a little slower than any of us would like,” Pope said.
Wildcats then turned off no. 5 Tennessee before falling to Texas. They have lost five of their last eight matches in the rough and tumbling southeastern conference.
Kentucky (17-8, 6-6 sec) had a five-point lead over Texas with less than four minutes to play but allowed a 14-1 driving. Leading goal scores Otega Oweh had 20 points and forward Amari Williams added 18 points and 12 boards, but the lack of backcourt depth and focus was on wildcats.
“One of the things that have been really special about our team is that we have done a good job of being at the moment, to be on the next game,” Pope said.
“It’s been a really good characteristic of our team. We just were not our normal self in that aspect of the game in the last three minutes and 45 seconds.”
Vanderbilt (17-8, 5-7) comes in after his own frustrating loss. Commodores led worth Tennessee 44-31 at half time but stumbled late in an 81-76 defeat.
Junior Jason Edwards had 24 points to take on Commodores, including 6-first-10-point attempts, but Vanderbilt allowed the volunteers to shoot 55.8 percent from the floor and 65.4 percent in the second half. On his home floor, Vanderbilt had beaten Tennessee 76-75 on January 18.
“We have a few things to fix, but at the same time I want to make sure people know how good Tennessee is,” said Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington. “You can play really well and lose in this league. … We try to get each of them, but many of our losses this year we have not played badly.”
Edwards has been particularly impressive. North Texas transmission is on average 17.6 points per match and has received two digits in all except one of his 25 matches this season.
Vanderbilt defeated to visit Kentucky 74-69 on January 25. The Wildcats lost even though he checked the boards 43-30 and saw Commodores shoot just 4-for-11 from the Foul line.
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