Brandon Knight.... Anthony Davis.... Alex Poythress...Kyle Wiltzer.....MKG... Teague..... WCS...... all above 3.0 GPA. Hardly qualifies as bench players.BigRedMan wrote:No problem with it. Just don't thump the chest about bench players bringing up the team GPA.
Noting that the UK team's GPA included five players who entered this year's NBA Draft, Calipari said in a statement released Friday that "all this stuff bitter old men say that they don't go to class, it's not true."
Three of those early entrants to the NBA Draft — freshmen Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague — combined for a grade-point average of "well above 3.0," UK said in a news release.
The UK news release called the men's basketball team "the most high-profile example in a department full of student-athletes committed to excelling both on and off the field."