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A healthy Dontaie Allen finds new appreciation for basketball, approach toward life

Editor’s note: This is the second edition of KSR’s preseason previews for the upcoming 2020-21 Kentucky basketball season. The first featured Davion Mintz, which can be found here.

There wasn’t a defender in Kentucky capable of slowing down Pendleton County star guard Dontaie Allen at the onset of his senior campaign. Averaging an absurd 42.9 points and 14.2 rebounds per contest, including six 50-point games and 12 double-doubles in his first 13 outings, Allen was terrorizing the opposition and torching nets each time he stepped on the court.

Emerging quickly as the runaway favorite in Kentucky to earn the state’s prestigious Mr.