Kentucky finished the 2021-22 college basketball season with the National Player of the Year and a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The loss to No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s will be the lasting memory, but this was still a Kentucky team that finished just outside the KenPom top-five. Yet, the Wildcats accomplished that without an expected contributor.
Iowa transfer CJ Fredrick missed the entire season with a left hamstring injury and had to watch the Wildcats from the pine. As Kentucky’s shooters went cold down the stretch, that loss stung has it took a career 46.