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Sharife Cooper did not attempt a free throw. “We kept retreating,” Calipari explained.

Auburn’s Sharife Cooper is one of the league’s best scorers and he does a lot of that scoring at the foul line where he leads the entire country in both makes and attempts. Cooper gets over eight of his 20.2 points per game via the charity stripe on an NCAA-best 9.4 shot attempts from the line each game.

Against Kentucky, however, Cooper scored zero points on zero trips to the free throw line, a perfect 0-for-0 on the box score, exactly 9.4 tries below his season average.

How was Kentucky able to keep the future NBA lottery pick off the line all day?