DJ Wagner leaves Miami game with lower extremity injury
By SAM LANCE
Kentucky freshman guard D.J. Wagner left Tuesday’s home game against Miami with a “lower extremity injury.”
Kentucky head coach John Calipari later told reporters it was an ankle injury.
No. 12 Kentucky won the game over No. 8 Miami, 95-73, in the ACC/SEC Challenge.
Calipari said he didn’t see DJ Wagner but he was told an ankle issue. “He wasn’t going to come back” tonight. No further elaboration.
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Wagner — the former five-star recruit from Camden High School (NJ) — limped off the court and was taken to the locker room with 3:50 to play in the first half. Wagner was spotted on the exercise bike before Kentucky announced he would not return to the game.
Wagner has averaged 14.5 points, 3.7 assists and 2.2 rebounds in six games for the Wildcats this season. Another freshman guard, Reed Sheppard, took Wagner’s spot in the starting lineup coming out of the halftime break.
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