PJ Washington needed a big night. The sophomore had only eleven points in Kentucky’s first two games, but came out and made a statement tonight with a career-high 25 points in Kentucky’s 96-58 rout of North Dakota.
What changed? The Fighting Hawks were by far Kentucky’s weakest competition thus far, which certainly helped, but PJ’s career-high four threes stretched the floor and helped the Cats maximize mismatches. After noting some problems with his stance earlier this week, John Calipari praised PJ’s shooting tonight.
“He can shoot it. He’s been working. If you watch, he went from knees to shoot it to chest and shoot it.