LEXINGTON, Ky. — With Kentucky’s stars still sidelined to begin the 2022-23 college basketball season, a few other Wildcats got a chance at the spotlight.
UK started its regular season without three key players — national player of the year Oscar Tshiebwe, all-league point guard Sahvir Wheeler and sophomore forward Daimion Collins — but it didn’t impact the final outcome Monday night. The Cats defeated Howard University, 95-63, in Rupp Arena with just eight available scholarship players.
Things started a bit clunky for the short-handed Wildcats. It took nearly six minutes for someone other than freshman Cason Wallace to make a basket, and UK had just 13 points at the under-12 TV timeout in the first half. Not long after that, the rout was on.
