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Can Nolan Hickman carry the load as Kentucky basketball’s primary point guard?

Nolan Hickman’s No. 31 ranking in the 247Sports Composite offers both hope and reason to worry if he is the primary point guard for Kentucky next season.

Perhaps no shortcoming of basketball's 2020-21 roster played a bigger role in the team's abysmal 9-16 record than the lack of a play-making point guard.

It should come as no surprise then that is searching for a high-level transfer to add to the position next season.

Minnesota point guard Marcus Carr is among the top options in the transfer portal, but he is first testing the NBA draft waters. Other options could emerge in the coming weeks and months, but there is no sure-thing available to the Wildcats as of now.

Could the solution to the problem already being the 2021 recruiting class?

One of Kentucky's two McDonald's All-Americans in the class is four-star point guard . The Seattle, Washington native averaged 16 points and 3.3 assists per game for Wasatch Academy in Utah as a senior.

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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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