Tyler Herro told Arkansas’ Mason Jones that “I’m a bucket” while he tried to ice the game away at the free throw line late in Kentucky’s 70-66 victory over the Razorbacks on Tuesday night and no truer words have ever left his mouth since he arrived in Lexington.
The super two-way wing scored a season-high 29 points on 9-of-10 shooting (!) with five triples in six attempts (!!) and a perfect 6-for-6 shooting night at the charity stripe.
Kentucky needed every bit of Herro’s performance, which from the sounds of things on the SEC Network broadcast, came on a bum ankle (that Herro later admitted it was his Achilles that was bothering him more than his ankle to Laura Rutledge in his post-game interview, which is a more scarier topic).