catmandoo
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posted 10-31-2020 11:30 AM
For most of the summer and early fall, it looked like Jacob Toppin would spend his first year at Kentucky on the bench.
However, the younger brother of 2020 Player of the Year Obi Toppin impressed enough in practice that, coupled with the NCAA handing out a free year of eligibility, Toppin and John Calipari decided they should get him a waiver now to play for what should be one of the nation’s top Final Four contenders.
Now, Toppin is eligible and just had his first meeting with local media Friday via Zoom. And his big brother, who’s used to having plenty of reporters around him, actually prepared his little bro for how to handle media interviews.
“I don’t know how he knew that you guys were going to ask these questions, but he was just going with the flow and I was just answering them. It was actually pretty funny because these are the questions that you guys are really asking and he was asking me the same questions,” he said.
On when he decided to pursue a waiver for immediate eligibility and what the motivation was for that …
“I was taking day by day. We had all seen that practice was hard and we were all getting better every day. Coach (John Calipari) had seen that too. Me and Coach talked with each other. I talked with my family. With COVID going on right now, we decided that we should take that chance to try to get a waiver. We got that waiver, and I’m just glad that I was able to become eligible.”
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