re: Kentucky headed to the Bahamas today

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Nassau, Bahamas One team has a player who ranks 16th on South Carolina’s career scoring list. That’s Team Toronto. Another squad is billed as the “European Kentucky.” That’s Mega Bemax, which is based in Serbia. San Lorenzo de Almagro, which is based in Argentina, won its league championship last season. And the “home team,” the Bahamas National Team, has several players with Division I experience. That includes a player who has competed against Kentucky before.

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UK begins play against the Bahamas National Team on Wednesday. UK fans with keen memories might recall Kadeem Coleby. He started 19 games for the Wichita State team that rolled into the 2014 NCAA Tournament undefeated as a No. 1 seed. Of course, UK beat the Shockers 78-76. Coleby played seven scoreless minutes in that game in St. Louis. His brother, Dwight Coleby, was expected to play for the Bahamas National Team. He played for the Ole Miss team that nearly beat undefeated Kentucky in January of 2015. He played 27 minutes and scored eight points in the game that turned in UK’s favor when muscle cramps sidelined Ole Miss guard Stefan Moody early in overtime. Dwight Coleby, who finished off his college career at Western Kentucky last season, will not play against UK here. Bowleg said the chance for a “professional tryout” led him to drop out.

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A team known as Providence Storm defeated North Carolina. Leading the Storm with 17 points and 18 rebounds was a player named DeAndre Ayton, who eventually played as a freshman for Arizona last season and was the No. 1 pick in this year’s NBA Draft. Other players for the Bahamas National Team with NCAA experience include Shaq Cleare, who played for Maryland against UK in the 2012 season opener made notable by Jarrod Polson’s star turn off the bench. Michael Carey, who posted 27 double-doubles in his career for Wagner, also is on the Bahamas roster. Former South Carolina guard Duane Notice will play for Team Toronto, which will face UK on Sunday in the final game of the exhibition series.

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