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Reid Travis returns to ‘bread and butter’ style in leading UK to victory

You could say veteran leader Reid Travis went old school in Kentucky’s final preseason exhibition game Friday. The graduate transfer came to UK with the idea of adding a perimeter component to his power game.

But Travis, who once described his playing style at Stanford as bully ball, mostly used low-post muscle to lead UK to a 86-64 victory over Indiana-Pennsylvania.

“When you’re in a transition, it’s easy to just stand out there and you want to show everybody all the things you’ve worked on,” Travis said. “I’m stretching my game out. You’re not going to do your bread and butter.