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Deandre Liggins gets final roster spot as Thunder waive Daniel Orton

Deandre Liggins - photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images

– photo by Layne Murdoch/NBAE via Getty Images

Second-year guard DeAndre Liggins won the final roster spot for the on Saturday as the team waived Andy Rautins, and Hollis Thompson.  The moves get the Thunder down to the 15-player limit for the regular season.  Liggins played in five preseason games and started twice with Thabo Sefolosha and James Harden both out with injuries. He averaged 4.8 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.4 steals in about 20 minutes per game.  Liggins played in 17 games last season after being a second-round pick out of Kentucky in last year’s draft.

 

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On March 24, 1947, before a Madison Square Garden record crowd of 18,493, Wat Misaka held Ralph Beard to two points and Utah ended the Wildcats’ bid for back-to-back NIT Championships.

 

On March 24, 1951, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 5 Illinois in the 1951 NCAA Final Four.  After UK standouts Bill Spivey and Cliff Hagan fouled out, Shelby Linville, a 6-foot-5 junior, scored Kentucky’s final six points, including the game-winning basket on a layup with 12 seconds left before 16,425 in the old Madison Square Garden in New York City.

 

On March 24, 2017, in a highly anticipated matchup with UCLA, which beat the Wildcats in the regular season in Rupp Arena, freshman point guard De’Aaron Fox scores an NCAA Tournament freshman record 39 points to propel UK to the Elite Eight.

 

Wildcats Born on This Date

March 24, 1972

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