When Trent Noah went down with an ankle injury in the first half, admit it: you thought this Kentucky team might be cursed. It was the third injury since the preseason began (fourth if you count Jayden Quaintance’s ACL rehab). Thankfully, it sounds like Noah will be fine; in fact, he wanted to play in the second half, but Mark Pope said no.
“One of the assistants came up to me at the end of the first half or the beginning of the second half and said, ‘Trent’s good to go,'” Pope said in his postgame press conference.