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Injuries have been unavoidable for Kentucky throughout Mark Pope\u2019s tenure. On Monday night, we learned that Jaland Lowe<\/a> is undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery. The Cats will be missing more than a point guard in their next SEC road trip. <\/p>\n

Jayden Quaintaince<\/a> is listed as \u201cout\u201d on the SEC Availability Report<\/a> ahead of Wednesday night\u2019s matchup against LSU. It\u2019s the second straight game the Kentucky center has missed as he deals with swelling in his knee that was surgically repaired this offseason. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a little start or stop as we go. That\u2019s just the process of coming back from something like this,\u201d Mark Pope said recently<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Quaintance made his debut in December\u2019s CBS Sports Classic. The projected lottery pick tallied 10 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 blocks in the win over St. John\u2019s. He played double-digit minutes in the first two games of SEC play before spending the Mississippi State game on the sideline. <\/p>\n

New Kentucky Starting Lineup<\/p>\n

Mark Pope is reshuffling the deck, and he\u2019s rolling out a lineup that should create more space in the middle of the floor. Jack Pilgrim reports<\/a> that Kam Williams<\/a> and Andrija Jelavic<\/a> will be in the starting lineup at LSU. <\/p>\n

Williams got hot from three-point land right before SEC play began, knocking down 8-10 three-pointers against Bellarmine. The last time we saw him on the floor, he logged a season-high 30 minutes, tallying 14 points, five rebounds, two assists, and two steals. Jelavic logged double-digit minutes against Mississippi State, the most he\u2019s seen the floor in more than a month, and Pope is rewarding his performance with an even bigger opportunity. <\/p>\n

Injury for LSU<\/p>\n

Kentucky is not the only one dealing with injuries. Dedan Thomas<\/a> has been LSU\u2019s best player since he transferred from UNLV. Not only is he the Tigers\u2019 leading scorer \u2014 averaging 16.2 points per game \u2014 he is the straw that stirs LSU\u2019s drink on offense. The point guard leads the SEC with 7.2 assists per game. <\/p>\n

Thomas re-aggravated a previous lower leg injury during practice around New Year\u2019s and has not yet appeared in an SEC game. LSU lost all three contests without Thomas. Thomas is listed as \u201cdoubtful\u201d on Tuesday before the Tigers host Kentucky at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.<\/p>\n

Kentucky vs. LSU: How to Watch, Listen<\/p>\n

Tipoff: 7:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

TV: SEC Network (Dave Neal, Rodney Terry)<\/p>\n

Local Radio: UK Sports Network (Tom Leach, Goose Givens)<\/p>\n

AM: 840 WHAS, 630 WLAP<\/p>\n

FM: 98.1 WBUL<\/p>\n

Online:\u00a0iHeart Radio<\/a><\/p>\n

Sirius XM: 383<\/p>\n

You can also follow along on the KSR LIVE BLOG, which will start a few hours before tipoff, and join the conversation on\u00a0KSBoard<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injuries have been unavoidable for Kentucky throughout Mark Pope\u2019s tenure. On Monday night, we learned that Jaland Lowe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[4734,7,52412,5403,29571],"class_list":{"0":"post-535573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-andrija-jelavic","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-dedan-thomas-23-liberty","11":"tag-jayden-quaintance-24-word-of-god-christian-academy","12":"tag-kam-williams-24-lafayette-christian-academy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115892209900528692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535573","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=535573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}