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Anthony Davis steaming toward national Player of the Year award

Anthony Davis - photo by Regina Rickert | WildcatWorld.comOnly two Division I basketball teams have two or more players on the Wooden Award’s midseason top 25 list. One is North Carolina (Harrison Barnes, John Henson, Kendall Marshall). The other is .  It came as no surprise that the Wildcats’ two representatives on the Wooden list are freshmen, and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. And if Davis keeps playing the way he did against Arkansas on Tuesday night…

 

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On June 28, 2012, the Wildcats set an NBA Draft record with six players picked in the 2012 NBA Draft. Anthony Davis becomes the second UK player to be picked No. 1 overall and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist goes No. 2 overall, becoming the first teammates in NBA Draft history to go 1-2 in the same draft.

 

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