“Who is number one in the country in plus/minus?” Kentucky head coach John Calipari asked Tom Leach on his call-in radio show Monday evening.
“That would be young Mr. Sheppard,” Leach responded.
“He’s number one — listen to me — in the country.” Reed Sheppard is a +127 on the year with zero games in the negatives. Even in Kentucky’s 89-84 loss to top-ranked Kansas he was a +3 in just under 16 minutes. Two games later he was a team-high +16 despite finishing with zero points on just one shot attempt.