It’s hard to believe that Keith Williams wasn’t a starter to open the season for the Cincinnati Bearcats. It made sense at the time. The sophomore wing saw diminished playing time down the stretch as a freshman and was outworked for a role as a key reserve by Trevor Moore. Entering this season, Williams was going to get more of a chance, but the odds were that he was still a year away from becoming a big-time contributor, assuming he would ever get there at all.
On opening night against Ohio State, it certainly didn’t appear that he was on his way to proving that notion wrong.