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Brandon Knight has shined in dark season for Bucks

Brandon Knight has averaged career highs in points, assists and rebounds per game in his first year in Milwaukee.

Brandon Knight - photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images

– photo by Gary Dineen/NBAE via Getty Images

Few things this season have been constant for the . Head coach Larry Drew has had penciled in 27 different starting lineups. Players have missed a total of 267 games to injury, illness, suspension and league paperwork. Nineteen different players have seen court time.

From the beginning of training camp, little could be counted on.

Yet if there was one metronome to the year, at least at the Cousins Center, was Brandon Knight staying long after practice was over, shooting.

Even as Knight missed games with own list of injuries, the 22-year-old would partner up with assistant Josh Oppenheimer, and take shot after shot after shot.

It's symbolic, really.

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On This Day In UK Basketball History

On March 28, 1992, in what many called the “best NCAA Tournament game ever,” Kentucky takes defending NCAA champion Duke into overtime before losing 104-103 in the East Regional finals in Philadelphia. A last-second shot by Christian Laettner sends Duke to the Final Four, and breaks the hearts of Wildcat fans everywhere. It is Cawood Ledford’s last game as the “Voice of the Wildcats.”

 

On March 28, 1998, against Stanford, Kentucky rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit, then grabbed a 5-point overtime lead, before fending off the Cardinals to advance to the title game for the third straight season. Jeff Sheppard canned three long-range three-pointers - two in the final three minutes and one in overtime - en route to a career-high 27 points.

 

On March 28, 2014, unranked Kentucky beat No. 5 Louisville 74-69, in the 2014 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.  Aaron Harrison buried a three-pointer from the left corner with 39 seconds left that put UK ahead to stay before 41,072 in Lucas Oil Stadium.

 

On March 28, 2015, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 8 Notre Dame, 68-66, in the 2015 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.  With its 37-0 record on the line, Kentucky trailed Notre Dame 59-53 with 6:14 left. UK rallied in front of 19,464 fans in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena and preserved its perfect season thanks to a crucial blocked shot by Willie Cauley-Stein and two game-deciding free throws from Andrew Harrison in the final seconds.

 

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