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Tough-minded Tyler Ulis turning his lack of size into a strength

Tyler Ulis said it’s taken him years of playing at a disadvantaged height to make up for his lack of size.
Tyler Ulis

Tyler Ulis

Unless you’re a UFC fighter, Shaquille O’Neal or just someone asking for a bad day, picking a fight with DeMarcus Cousins seems like a terrible idea for anyone.

At 6-foot-11, 270 pounds, there are few players in the NBA more menacing than the former Kentucky Wildcat. His size, let alone how he uses it, can be downright frightening.

“DeMarcus Cousins is a big kid,” Marcus Lee said it best. “I wouldn’t do nothing stupid like that.”

Nobody told Tyler Ulis that last summer when was playing in a pick-up game during a recruiting visit on campus.

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On This Day in UK Basketball History

On December 7, 1957, what was then referred to as “the longest game in UK history” proves fruitful for the Wildcats as they defeat Temple 85-83 in three overtimes. Vernon Hatton scores UK’s final six points to edge the Owls.  Hatton hit a shot from 47 feet against Temple that tied the score at the end of the first overtime.  This remains one of the games that looms largest in the lore of Kentucky basketball.

 

On December 7, 1988, LeRon Ellis scored 37 points against Northwestern State.

 

On December 7, 1996, No. 6 Kentucky defeated No. 8 Indiana, 99-65.  Before 20,074 fans in Freedom Hall, UK’s Derek Anderson (30 points) and Ron Mercer (26) led a Kentucky full-court blitz that annihilated Bobby Knight’s Hoosiers.

 

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