Cam’Ron Fletcher was overlooked in Kentucky’s incoming class, the lowest-ranked of six new freshmen on John Calipari’s new team. Throw in three new transfers, including Olivier Sarr with his summertime soap opera, and it’s easy to see how Fletcher’s name wasn’t at the front of the preseason conversations surrounding this brand new team.
But we are talking about him right now.
Maybe the star of the entire game for how he outplayed expectations, the 6-6 freshman came off the bench to score nine points on 4-of-5 shooting from the field, plus five rebounds, three assists and a steal, all in only 17 minutes played.