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Kentucky's competitive practices are contributing to the Daimion Collins leap

The talk of the Kentucky men’s basketball offseason has been that of Daimion Collins‘s apparent leap. An up-and-down freshman season with the Wildcats led to him returning for a sophomore year in Lexington, where expectations have ramped up just a bit for the 19-year-old with a 46.5-inch vertical. During Kentucky’s trip to the Bahamas in August, Collins looked like a brand new player — one who could fulfill his five-star, high school potential as an eventual first-round NBA Draft pick.

Across four games on that foreign trip over the summer, Collins averaged 10.