Apparently the LSU-UK basketball game Tuesday night was even worse than it seemed…

I obviously wasn’t watching the McMen Tuesday as I opted to watch the best baseball team in the country play a midweek game against NDSU, but apparently the basketball game was somehow worse than I thought when I saw the score.

Worse than losing by 31 and UK having five white boys on the floor in the closing seconds, it turns out that one of those white boys was a walk on that didn’t even have a jersey until that night…

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Late last August, Kentucky held an open tryout for UK students to participate in. This offered a potential pathway toward joining head coach Mark Pope’s first Kentucky squad.

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The tryout came and went. Then, in October, a new UK player was on the court for the Wildcats’ Pro Day event at Memorial Coliseum.

That was Zach Tow, who is listed as a 6-foot-5 junior forward from Madisonville on UK’s roster sheets that are distributed at games. Tow is also listed on ESPN’s roster of Kentucky players, but he’s not on UK’s online roster.

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But until Tuesday night against LSU, Tow hadn’t actually been in uniform for a UK game. Tow previously occupied his seat on the Kentucky bench in a sweatsuit, and he hadn’t yet worn the No. 20 jersey that he was listed as having on ESPN and in UK’s media materials.

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Getting the jersey is one thing. But checking into a game and officially being recorded as a UK basketball player is another.

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Tow made his way to the scorer’s table, high-fiving UK assistant coach Mikhail McLean along the way, before tucking in his newly awarded jersey and taking his spot along the lane.

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UK literally put in Rudy on our arse

Cool story though, good for that kid.