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Williams had arguably his best game of the season on Tuesday. Kentucky basketball bounced back in a massive way, beating #8 Tennessee on the road in Knoxville on Tuesday 78-73.
The Wildcats were without Lamont Butler and Kerr Kriisa, as well as having Andrew Carr banged up and being limited in the game, and they still came up with a top 10 win on the road, adding to an impressive stack of resume wins.
One of the standouts from the game was not just Jaxson Robinson, Koby Brea, and Ansley Almonor firing away from three-point range, it was also big man Amari Williams, who came up big in multiple areas, including as a playmaker, which added a wrinkle to Kentucky’s offense against the #1 defense in the country.
It obviously worked, because Kentucky’s 78 points was the most Tennessee has given up all season.
Williams had a big game on his birthday, and stepped up when they needed him, adding a season-high tying 15 rebounds and 10 points to make it his fifth double-double of the season. Pope called him ‘one-of-one,’ stepping up to an ‘impossible’ task as o
f late, and doing it well.
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