Kentucky will play its first exhibition game without Kerr Kriisa. The fifth-year senior guard will not play tonight vs. Kentucky Wesleyan due to a tweaked hamstring, according to Cameron Mills on the UK Sports Network pregame show. The minor injury also kept Kriisa out of the Blue-White Preseason Event last Friday.
On Friday, Mark Pope said that Kriisa suffered the injury last week in practice and was being held out for precautionary reasons.
“We actually finished our practice a couple of days ago with some heavy conditioning and he tweaked his hamstring,” Pope said on Friday. “It’s not even a strain. It was just a precaution tonight.”
Even though he is sitting out again tonight, Kriisa was still the first player out for warmups. He’s since changed back into street clothes.
Freshman Travis Perry started at point guard for the Blue Team in Kriisa’s place on Friday. I would imagine he and Collin Chandler will get some extended run tonight behind or alongside Lamont Butler, the expected starter.
No. 23 Kentucky vs. Kentucky Wesleyan
7 p.m. ET | Wednesday, Oct. 23 | Rupp Arena
You can also follow the game on the KSBoard Game Thread, with Drew Franklin, Jack Pilgrim, Zack Geoghegan, and Jacob Polacheck providing commentary from Rupp Arena and the rest of us following along from home.
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