Going strictly by the numbers, Kentucky basketball went 1-for-3 Wednesday night. Actually, the Cats did much, much better than that.
The player they most needed to yank his name from the NBA draft list and return for the 2018-19 college campaign did exactly that when sophomore-to-be PJ Washington posted to Instagram and Twitter a celebration video with the happy inscription of “I’m back.”
Teammates Wenyen Gabriel and Jarred Vanderbilt chose different paths. Gabriel, a rising junior, and Vanderbilt, a sophomore-to-be, indicated their UK days are done despite the fact their chances of being selected come June 21 are iffy at best.