Kennedy Chandler came firing out of the gates this season, immediately looking like he was ready to steer Tennessee to big things. The five-star point guard was in double figures in six of his first seven games as a Volunteer, culminating with a 27 point performance against Colorado in early December.
And then things changed. The schedule got tougher. Opposing scouting reports adjusted, and suddenly it was tougher sledding for the future NBA draft pick.
“In some ways, I told him before, I told that in some ways a curse,” Rick Barnes said of Chandler’s hot start.