Remember when Nerlens Noel single-handedly won this game last year?
Nerlens Noel played one of the single greatest defensive games you’ll ever see last season in Oxford when Kentucky upset 16th-ranked Ole Miss. Playing with four fouls and Kentucky barely hanging on to a four-point lead — courtesy of a Ryan Harrow three-pointer, might I add — Noel swatted a Murphy Holloway dunk attempt that would’ve blown the roof off the Tad and likely changed the outcome of the game. He followed that up with another blocked Ole Miss dunk attempt on the Rebels’ very next possession and the rest was history.
Noel finished the game with a school-record 12 blocks, leading Holloway to call him the best shot blocker he’d ever played against, including Anthony Davis. Most of Noel’s blocks came in the second half when he was one foul away from leaving the game for good.
Reminisce…
They don’t make many like Nerlens…
Chris Reynolds | CoachCal.com
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