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Highlights, box score & MVP from Wildcats’ fun win over Morehead State

A Thanksgiving Week restart to the college basketball season was the perfect setting for the Kentucky Wildcats, as 10 different players made their debut in blue and white in a 81-45 win over Morehead State, the first game of the 2020 Bluegrass Showcase at Rupp Arena.

Four freshman - Devin Askew, BJ Boston, Terrence Clarke and Isaiah Jackson got their first college start along with Wake Forest transfer Olivier Sarr - as the No. 10-ranked Wildcats used its length on the defensive end to smother an overmatched Morehead State team that struggled offensively.

Freshman Lance Ware, Cam’Ron Fletcher and transfers Davion Mintz and Jacob Toppin also saw quality minutes with former Kentucky Mr.