DeAndre Square left the Camping World Stadium locker room on crutches. Moments earlier he was leaping through the air to pick off an errant Iowa pass and secure a 20-17 Citrus Bowl victory, Kentucky’s tenth of the 2021 season.
“He knew he couldn’t come out,” Mark Stoops said after the game. “We were getting thin. And the way he played through that pain, I don’t know how he did it.”
The Kentucky Wildcat’s memorable Willis Reed moment was no fabrication. Square was told not to go back into the game. Jacquez Jones and Trevin Wallace were also sidelined, limiting Brad White’s options at linebacker.