Kentucky redshirt senior CJ Fredrick is an elite shooter. Let’s go ahead and get that out of the way before we dive into the rest of this article. During two seasons at Iowa before transferring to UK, Fredrick shot 49.4 percent from 3-point range on 178 total attempts. That sample size is big enough to not be flukey. He’s a coin-flip outside shooter; even at the highest level of basketball, that’s rare. It was the driving reason why head coach John Calipari recruited him to Lexington out of the transfer portal.
But it’s not the reason he’s going to play a major role for Kentucky this season.