LEXINGTON — Kentucky basketball finally has its most experienced player available.
Sophomore forward Keion Brooks, the only returning player who scored a point for UK last season, has been cleared by doctors to resume playing, the 6-foot-7, 205-pound forward tweeted Thursday evening. Brooks had missed the first nine games of the season with a leg injury.
Brooks' injury has served as a mysterious backdrop to the Wildcats poor start to the season. Kentucky lost six of its first seven games for the first time since 1927 but has won its last two games to open SEC play.