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Kentucky already has two short players in the second year of striker Keion Brooks Jr. (injury) and freshman forward Cam’Ron Fletcher (suspension), but will they be left out by a third when the team heads to Louisville on Saturday to face the Cardinals?
Head coach John Calipari says the Wildcat has dropped a player from the rotation due to injury, though hopes are he can return to the training ground today.
As for who this player is, Calipari was unwilling to shed the beans.
“We still had an injured player. I won’t tell you, “said Calipari. “I hope I can practice some of them today. When you have this, it takes you even further. But we are not the only ones. There are no excuses here. “
As a result of Kentucky’s loss to North Carolina last weekend, Calipari noted that some players were out with “a few things,” preventing the team from mixing all week.
“We haven’t been able to shuffle the last two days,” he said at the time. “We had some guys with some things. But the boys who were there improved. ”
And after the loss, the UK coach added that the players who could not practice were the ones who hit during the match, a change he will have to make to move forward. If a player can’t practice the days before the game, he probably won’t have to start the next time he plays.
“We’ve had a couple of guys who don’t practice this week and you can probably tell who hasn’t played that he’s capable of playing,” Calipari said. “You can say, ‘It was this guy and this guy.’ So to practice, if you’re not, you’re probably going to have to get off the bench. You can’t be a starter, it’s that other guy.”
Will this injury make the Wildcats even more abbreviated against the Cardinals this weekend?