Kentucky's versatile defensive weapon has Iowa State, T.J. Otzelberger's attention
Iowa State and Kentucky should be in a tight game in the second round of the men's NCAA Tournament and Wildcats have a unique weapon to pull of upset.
ST. LOUIS — Saturday’s pregame conversation, ahead of Iowa State’s round of 32 meeting with Kentucky , focused on the potential absence of one of college basketball’s most important defenders. T.
J. Otzelberger will concern himself just as much with one guaranteed to be on the Enterprise Center floor Sunday. Otzelberger and his staff know it’s unlikely Joshua Jefferson, pound for pound as important of a two-way player as any in the country, will be able to play through an ankle injury suffered when the Cyclones advanced past Tennessee State on Sunday.
His absence would make Iowa State’s March climb tangibly steeper. Yet with the Wildcats now in view, Otzelberger also knows there’s more to contend with than a healing timeline he can’t control. Which is why he spent time Saturday worrying about Brandon Garrison.
“He poses,” Otzelberger said, “a huge challenge. ” Kentucky's versatile defensive weapon The No. 2-seeded Cyclones will remember Garrison from his year in the Big 12 at Oklahoma State.
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