Running up and down Court 4 at the Under Armour event here Friday night was a high school basketball recruit who surely elicited a double-take from any unaware UK fans that might have wandered by.
Without the benefit of a roster, followers of the Wildcats might have questioned the reality of the situation. Playing on that court was, unmistakably, a 6-foot-2 version of Jamal Mashburn, one of the program’s greatest players, and a man who played his last game in a UK uniform 25 years ago.
“I do look exactly like him,” Jamal Mashburn Jr.