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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made the plays and gesture UK basketball needed against Buffalo

Kentucky coach John Calipari says he talked with Buffalo coach Nate Oats before their NCAA Tournament game and it's all good between them.

BOISE, Idaho — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander doesn't shoot many 3-pointers or regularly display emotions.

But the freshman point guard does whatever Kentucky basketball needs and on Saturday, with an anti-blue-blood-basketball crowd screaming wildly in favor of underdog Buffalo in Taco Bell Arena, he showed us why he's one of the best players in the country.

Gilgeous-Alexander drained a shot from deep to quell a first-half run by the Bulls.