{"id":48712,"date":"2025-07-30T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48712\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T23:40:08","slug":"collin-chandler-is-back-at-uk-basketball-practice-after-battling-minor-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/48712\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin Chandler is back at UK Basketball practice after battling minor injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"G4aP4e\">After coming on strong late in his freshman season last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseaofblue.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky Wildcats<\/a> guard Collin Chandler is poised to build off that strong finish and parlay that into a strong second season with Mark Pope and the Wildcats.<\/p>\n<p id=\"KanTcN\">Kentucky head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/mark-pope-132332\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Pope<\/a> has talked multiple times this offseason about how his second-year players take \u201cmassive leaps.\u201d Pope expects to see that happen with Chandler.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8F5T9l\">However, that hit a bit of a speed bump recently, as Chandler missed some practice time while battling a minor injury. That caused him to miss the team\u2019s scrimmage against La Familia earlier this month, which Kentucky narrowly won in what was a defensive struggle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bZ8rhE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/kentucky-wildcats\/news\/collin-chandler-back-practice-after-dealing-minor-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to KSR\u2019s Jack Pilgrim<\/a>, Chandler returned to practice on Tuesday after dealing with the undisclosed injury. <\/p>\n<p id=\"k3KhSE\">\u201cCollin Chandler has been out dealing with a little bit of a minor, minor, minor injury,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/TGHp6VSDU7A\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pilgrim said on Tuesday night\u2019s episode of Sources Say<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m told he is back, actually returned back to practice today, so that\u2019s definitely a big positive. But wasn\u2019t a part of that scrimmage with La Familia and some of the practices leading up and the 5-on-5s in the days since, but is officially back. That\u2019s a great update.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"UEQVvu\">In eight games last March, including two in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/sec-basketball-tournament\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEC Tournament<\/a> and three in the NCAA Tournament, Chandler averaged six points and 1.8 rebounds per game while going 12\/23 from 3-point range. He actually shot 5\/8 in the NCAA Tournament for a scorching 62.5%.<\/p>\n<p id=\"k1VP7v\">Expectations are high going into his second season, and Chandler seems poised to carry the momentum he generated this past March when the upcoming season tips off in November.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"roiIPG\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/GoASoB\/posts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like our Facebook page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aseaofblue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">go follow us on Twitter<\/a> for more <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UK<\/a> news and views. Go Cats!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After coming on strong late in his freshman season last year, Kentucky Wildcats guard Collin Chandler is poised&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[571,822,1479,8235,402,37907,574,34529,37906,577,424,10156,2850,575,37908,14289,398,400,401,573,10513,572,99,2761],"class_list":["post-48712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-a","tag-after","tag-at","tag-back","tag-basketball","tag-battling","tag-blue","tag-chandler","tag-collin","tag-exclude-from-stn-video","tag-front-page","tag-injury","tag-is","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball-injuries","tag-minor","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-of","tag-practice","tag-sea","tag-sports","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}