{"id":523476,"date":"2026-01-07T22:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523476\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:25:12","slug":"jaland-lowe-and-jayden-quaintance-enter-starting-lineup-for-kentucky-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523476\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaland Lowe and Jayden Quaintance enter starting lineup for Kentucky Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseaofblue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kentucky Wildcats<\/a> are making a major change to the starting lineup when they host the Missouri Tigers on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lowe will replace Denzel Aberdeen as the starting point guard, though Aberdeen will remain a starter and kick shooting guard Collin Chandler to the bench, while Quaintance replaces Malachi Moreno as the starting center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This change has been brewing for several weeks now, as Quaintance is clearly Kentucky\u2019s best big man and needs to play as much as possible now that he\u2019s getting his conditioning up following a long layoff from ACL surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Meanwhile, Lowe has progressed enough in his recovery from multiple shoulder injuries that he\u2019s now playing starter\u2019s minutes, and he\u2019s far and away Kentucky\u2019s best passer and runs the offense so much more efficiently than anyone else on the roster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let\u2019s hope this change sparks a big turnaround for a Wildcats team that needs to find more rhythm if they\u2019re going to thrive in SEC play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kentucky Wildcats are making a major change to the starting lineup when they host the Missouri Tigers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,38124,244,8582,231,772,1544],"class_list":{"0":"post-523476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball-news","11":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","12":"tag-kentucky-wildcats-news","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-basketball","15":"tag-ncaab"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115856167624896290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}