After a slow start, Mark Pope wound up giddy about Kentucky‘s shooting potential coming out of the summer and into the preseason, embracing the possibility of breaking last year’s school record set for most perimeter makes in a single season while continuing to push for volume at 30-plus attempts per contest. There may not be a Koby Brea-level shooter separating himself atop the college basketball world individually — although he did say Trent Noah would “bail us out” the way Brea did — but the team is loaded with capable weapons, deeper than his first group.
No shooting concerns for Kentucky as efficiency struggles to take off: 'Just gotta keep shooting.'