BOZICH : The answers to every important Kentucky-Wofford question

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WDRB) -- You have questions about Kentucky-Wofford.

Kentucky coach John Calipari had answers, about the health of his team and the cockiness of one of his players.

Wofford shooting star Fletcher Magee had answers about the hyped world of recruiting.

Kentucky forward Reid Travis had answers about why Magee is about to make six, seven or eight three-points shots in a game.

So did Wofford coach Mike Young, who said he and his players were honored to be matched against the Wildcats.

Here the answers to every important question about the NCAA Midwest Regional second round game that Kentucky, the two-seed, and Wofford, the seven-seed, will play at 2:40 p.m. Saturday on VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.

QUESTION: What do you tell the Kentucky players about trying to overcome the loss of forward PJ Washington, who will almost certainly miss the game with a sprained left foot?

UK associate head coach Kenny Payne: "We're trying to buy PJ time. We're trying to live to fight another day. So if we win this game, it gives him a couple more games, a couple more days to get healthy.

"That's our deal. We want to give him a chance to get back on the floor and the guys are fighting for him."

QUESTION: Do you consider PJ Washington officially out?

Calipari: "Yeah, I just can't -- what they're going to do at some point is cut the cast off and say how -- they just thought it would heal faster. I know there's all this, it's a conspiracy …

"… I'm telling you, it was negative in every X-ray, MRI. We even did an RIM. It's sprained. But we just -- and you guys that know me know that I'm overly cautious because it's these kids' careers, and I get it. I know this, he really wants to play, but I also want to feel comfortable that if he gets on the court that there's nothing he can do to himself, and the doctors have pretty much said that.

"So it's just, okay, when is it healed enough that he can go."

Question: Wofford doesn't start anyone that's taller than 6 feet 9. How big of an advantage is that for (Kentucky)?

UK center Nick Richards: "It's a really good advantage for us. They're not really as athletic as all three of us. Their bigs are really skilled around the basket, they know how to move on the floor, but we're just better than them overall, I think, so the advantage is our way, in my opinion."

QUESTION: Your reaction to the confident comments from Nick Richards?

Calipari: "They said Nick was in there saying that our bigs are quicker -- what are you doing, Nick? But that's okay, because like, if you speak, now what? You back it up. So I love his confidence. Now I want to watch you do it. Now get out there and do it, if you think that.

"And I want Nick to be more confident. Not like that, but on the court, more confident."

QUESTION: Would you tell coach Calipari that you want to be the player defending Magee?

UK guard Ashton Hagans: "I have the chance to say that, but I think we're going to start out with something else. You never know. I'm going to end up on him at some point in the game. And we're just going to go from there."

QUESTION: Magee has made 140 threes, shooting nearly 42 percent from distance. How do you stop or at least control him?

Hagans: "Make him make basketball plays. Put the ball on the floor. Try to keep him away from his three-point shot. That’s really it."

QUESTION: Wofford ranked second nationally (to Lehigh) in three-point field goal percentage, making 41.7 percent of their attempts. Has Kentucky played a team with a similar style?

UK forward Reid Travis: "I'd say Auburn is one of the closest ones in terms of having guys who can just put 'em up all different ways. Off the dribble. Off the catch. A team that really seeks the three-point shot. That's the closest thing that I can remember as far as a team that we've faced."

QUESTION: If you're directing somebody to the Wofford campus, where do you send them?

Travis: "I know it's in South Carolina (Spartanburg, in the southwest part of the state). I know it's in a great spot. I don't know how many other guys know. I just know quite a few people that went there."

QUESTION: What is Magee's most impressive skill?

Travis: "Just the way that he can contort his body and hit shots. He doesn't get open much because obviously his reputation follows him as far as a great shooter. There's always a hand up, always somebody in his face. But he's still able to knock down shots at a high level. He puts up a lot and puts them on runs. It's impressive."

QUESTION: If Washington does not play, can Keldon Johnson slide to power forward?

Payne: "The kid can play the position. He's versatile to be able to play it.

"When we recruited him we told him, you've got to be able at times to play the two through five, and on offense, play the two through the four. He can do that.

"The kid had 17, 18 rebounds in a game. We need that now. We really do."

QUESTION: Will Johnson be assigned the task of defending Magee?

Payne: "We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We want to guard him with multiple people. We want to guard him with length. We want to make all his shots.

"He's going to make some tough ones. He's done it all year. He's one of those guys who is a shot-maker. Similar to a Steph Curry. Guys that can manufacture tough shots and make them.

"That's hard to deal with at times. And emotionally, a guy that you play great defense and the guy runs off three or four in a row, it's tough."

QUESTION: Did Magee make Kentucky's radar in 2014-15 during his senior season of high school in Orlando, Fla.?

Payne: "Never heard of him. I think over time, guys develop. He may have been a good high school player, a really good high school player but, I tell you what, what he's doing in college basketball, shows that he has developed since he's been there."

QUESTION: How has Magee made the climb from 2-star recruit to a guy considered one of the top 25 players in college basketball?

Wofford head coach Mike Young: "He's an uncommon person. He's the hardest worker I have ever been around. I tell the story a couple of times that his high school coach told me.

"When I went and got him, he told me, 'He'll be the hardest working kid you've ever had.'

"I honestly didn't believe him. We hear that all the time from a high school coach, the hardest working kid we've had.

"Four years later, he's the hardest worker we've ever had. He'll be over here tomorrow about for about 30 minutes at 8 a.m. I'm not making these guys come over. He insisted on coming over to work. And he will be in a full-fledge sweat when he walks out of here.

"He is where he is today because of his work habits. It didn't just happen.

QUESTION: What was Magee's dream school and did he draw any interest from Kentucky?

Magee: "I didn't get any interest from them. I think Florida might have been the only SEC school that I ever had any intention of going to.

"Florida (was his dream school, when Billy Donovan was the head coach). They came to a lot of my AAU games just because I had a lot of great players on my team. So they showed a little bit of interest. But they didn't offer me."