‘It was something I couldn’t refuse.’ Olivier Sarr discusses path to UK, looks ahead. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Which is why it's reasonable to suggest nobody is going to benefit more this season than John Calipari's Kentucky Wildcats from the NCAA Division I Council voting on Wednesday to grant all winter student-athletes an extra year of eligibility. Photo by Noah J. Richter | UK Athletics. Daily updates, analysis, exclusives, video and more devoted to University of Kentucky sports. So, we need that, and I think Olivier is going to give us that.”. “One thing that I know about Cal is he loves post presence. Click below to see a full menu of stories published to date by the Lexington Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com looking ahead to the 2020-21 season. So let me be the first to congratulate the Kentucky Wildcats. Kentucky fans are anxiously awaiting Olivier Sarr news, and for good reason. And now the SEC has a good reason to clear him. The U of L great sounded genuinely ticked off that the SEC still hadn’t — at the time — granted UK’s Sarr a waiver to play this season. Whether it’s a little drill or we’re playing five-on-five, everybody wants to win.”. “[Winning]’s why I came to Kentucky, and that’s what I’m trying to bring to this team, that experience to win games.” he said, “Whatever it takes… whatever the team needs me to sacrifice and play my role at my best. Brown said he is "thankful and truly blessed." “I literally ran upstairs,” Sarr said to the media Wednesday. Go help that team win and win the national championship.”. Sarr has now grown to 7-feet tall and is currently in line to be the starting center for one of college basketball's elite programs this season. Absence ‘made me a stronger person.’, The ‘baby’ of this Kentucky basketball team has a leader’s mentality. Many pegged Kentucky’s ceiling for 2020 without him as the Sweet Sixteen; but with him, the Cats are widely viewed as a national championship contender. Guess who no longer has less than two years of eligibility remaining? “He’s a competitor. Like I said, I know for a fact that Cal likes to post the ball. He just wants to win, and he’ll do whatever it takes for his team to win. ‘Conscientious’ Cat can handle great expectations, former coach says, Kentucky player knows how to express gratitude: Dunk you very much, The COVID shuffle continues: Kentucky to play UCLA in Cleveland in December, New Lexington sports card shop aims to be part museum and ultimate community hangout, UK basketball cards show there’s ‘a place for every budget’ in collecting world. Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Man gets 25 years for setting fire to Black churches, The 20 best things to get at Aldi this year, according to shoppers. And when Calipari informed him his eligibility had finally been granted, he said he was so excited that he nearly lifted the Kentucky head coach off the floor when they hugged one another. Sarr proved the “super skilled” bit in his final season at Wake Forest, where he averaged 13.7 points and 9.0 rebounds per game and emerged as one of the best big men in the Atlantic Coast Conference. “I love his positivity and how he comes here every day, and you can tell that he’s excited to be here.”. You have permission to edit this article. He’s very highly skilled. 1 pick in the NBA Draft. Michigan guard Chaundee Brown, who transferred from Wake Forest, was granted immediate eligibility for the 2020-21 basketball season. Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who can handle media questions well? Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles. 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SOUTH BEND, INDIANA - JANUARY 29: Olivier Sarr #30 of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons makes a move on Juwan Durham #11 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Purcell Pavilion on January 29, 2020 in South Bend, Indiana. “All I can do is just focus on my work… focus on helping the team as much as I can,” Sarr said. As much as you shoot a ton of threes in college basketball nowadays, Cal believes that if you don’t have post presence, you’re a little bit of a fraud. Read the dueling columns. He said he wouldn’t have left Wake Forest regardless unless there was a possibility of playing immediately. Ware — a 6-foot-9, 223-pound newcomer and the biggest player on UK’s roster other than Sarr — spoke to the Herald-Leader a couple of weeks ago about his time in Lexington so far, and he was effusive in his praise for his new, veteran teammate. I’m pretty sure none of the freshmen played against somebody like that in high school. The senior big man received the news while at treatment after practice last week. He’s not just a back-to-the-basket player. Though it’s been nearly 25 years since Flint shared the same bench with Calipari, he knows that Kentucky’s best teams over the past decade have had guys who know their way around the paint and are adept at protecting the rim. How Kentucky's Olivier Sarr could play after NCAA gives extra year of eligibility to basketball players Gary Parrish 3 days ago Anchorage chooses first woman, openly gay acting mayor, report says Sorry, there are no recent results for popular videos. Sarr’s monthslong wait for an answer after transferring from Wake Forest to UK for his final season of college basketball finally ended Wednesday night, when Kentucky announced that he had been cleared by the Southeastern Conference to play immediately for the Wildcats. So Sarr applied for a transfer waiver in an attempt to gain immediate eligibility. The hype for Olivier Sarr has been steadily growing since he transferred to Kentucky.

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