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<script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></figure>If professional basketball doesn't work out for <a data-in-app-uri="thescore:///ncaab/teams/531" href="http://www.thescore.com/ncaab/teams/531">Kentucky</a>'s <a data-in-app-uri="thescore:///ncaab/players/24887" href="http://www.thescore.com/ncaab/players/24887">Alex Poythress</a>, he may just have a shot at a volleyball career.The senior forward showed off his impressive spiking ability with an emphatic block to end the first half of the Wildcats' first-round matchup with <a data-in-app-uri="thescore:///ncaab/teams/1048" href="http://www.thescore.com/ncaab/teams/1048">Stony Brook</a>.The entire Wildcats team is throwing a block party, recording nine rejections through 20 minutes.

Alex Poythress (NCAAB, NBA)

NCAA Men's Basketball

Stony Brook (NCAAB)

Kentucky Wildcats

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