And forward the 611 grand student from Westchester, Pennsylvania.

Number seven, Andrew Carr!

Andrew Carr had one objective during Kentucky's by week.

Get Healthy.

Coming off one of his worst games of the season, a 4.1 rebound outing versus Alabama,

the 611 forward practically lived in the

training room undergoing every treatment under the sun as Mark Pope put it to get closer to

100% as trainers worked on his back car worked on his mind. Yeah I've never really dealt with

anything kind of like this you know hopefully we'll be able to kind of turn the corner.

The back spasm started around New Year's and peaked during Kentucky's loss at Georgia on January 7th,

leaving Carr unable to sit down during timeouts.

He played through the pain for three more games, missing practices to rest and receive treatment to be ready come game time.

As Carr said, this was new territory. Before coming to Kentucky, he had only missed one college

game during his sophomore year at Delaware. He missed his second on January 25th, setting out

Kentucky's loss at Vanderbilt. Carr has worked his way back into actions since then without setbacks,

but balancing his desire to play with the limitations of his injury

has been one of the biggest challenges of his career.

You know, it certainly is a difficult thing, you know,

and it really goes up and down and up and down with how you feel about it

every human nature to think about oh man what would have happened if I was feeling 100%

I get chills in my body just thinking about somebody that's willing to sacrifice and like he was

actually worried that he was hurting us and not helping us by playing while

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