UK reserve Poole shooting for game time

After Kentucky beat Auburn Tuesday night, a sheepish freshman Stacey Poole confessed. He was the player UK Coach John Calipari mentioned as having thrown up 15 minutes into a pre-practice workout.

"I had been feeling sick for the past couple days," Poole said. "I think I was choking on my own spit."

Then Poole suggested he made himself sick trying so hard to impress.

"I was trying to push myself so hard because I want to play," he said.

During his post-game news conference, Calipari wondered aloud how players sickened by a coach-directed workout could handle big-game pressure. "If you can't take me, how are you going to go on a high-level game that's on national television and make a tough play?"

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