The 5-foot-9 basketball player from South Carolina still stands tall in Kentucky.
Devan Downey, nearly a decade removed from a career highlighted by a few Wildcat slayings, was in the Bluegrass State’s Lexington in 2017 for his daughter’s basketball tournament when he was spotted.
“A couple people recognized me,” Downey said, “and that’s all they wanted to talk about — that game.”
When it comes to Downey and UK, “that game” could any one of three. He twice led the Gamecocks to wins over Kentucky in Columbia, including a legendary 30-point performance that took down the top-ranked ‘Cats on Jan.