Former Kentucky guard TyTy Washington simply wasn’t the same after turning his ankle in the team’s loss at Auburn back on January 22. From that point forward, he would shoot above 50 percent in a single game just twice, excluding his 1-2 effort in 13 clearly non-healthy minutes at Tennessee. He scored over 17 points just once in that same span, a 25-point performance against Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament.
He had brief moments, but the consistency wasn’t there. It was an end-of-season run that resulted in a fall on draft night. Despite hearing lottery grades going into the 2022 NBA Draft, Washington slipped all the way to pick No.