In Kentucky’s rich and storied history of basketball, no freshman has matched what guard Doron Lamb did Wednesday afternoon in a pre-Christmas game with Winthrop.Not Jamal Mashburn. Not Sam Bowie. Not Rex Chapman. Not even last year’s famed John Wall scored as many as Lamb did Saturday.Ironically, of all the legendary freshmen that have graced the Kentucky uniform over the decades, it was an overlooked shooting guard off the bench that set the freshman single-game scoring mark. Lamb scored 32 points on a near perfect shooting afternoon to throttle the visiting Winthrop Eagles 89-52.”It’s an honor to break the record,” Lamb said. “Kentucky basketball is the biggest program in the country. I give thanks to my teammates for finding me on the court and giving me the ball.”Lamb’s layup with 6:38 minutes left broke Mashburn’s nearly 20-year-old record, which was set Feb. 3, 1991.It was news to Lamb.”You just told me,” Lamb said of learning that he had broken the record. “I just found out.”The freshman guard hit 11-of-12 from the floor, including 7-of-8 from 3-point range, the second-most 3-pointers by a freshman in UK annals (Eric Bledsoe is No. 1). Lamb was a perfect 5-of-5 from behind the arc in the first half. The only shot Lamb missed came midway through the second half. He responded by scoring on an old-fashioned 3-point play just seconds later. “He was good, huh?” head coach John Calipari said.Yeah, not bad for a sixth man.”Doron just shut it down,” Calipari said. “He just left his man, stayed under the basket until his man could go back and get his man and then he found his own. He played great. He was in control. (He had) a couple of assists. Big-time game.”The biggest ever for a Kentucky freshman, especially under what initially looked to be an adverse situation.Just four minutes into the game, starting point guard Brandon Knight went down hard on the court and grabbed his left knee. As the Rupp Arena crowd fell deathly silent and trainers rushed to Lamb’s side, Knight banged his fist on the court as if it was a serious injury and his season was over.”I was just frustrated because it was hurting,” Knight said.Knight (left knee contusion) would be OK and finished with 21 points, but at the time, with Knight headed back to the locker room and tensions high, the immediate outlook looked bleak.Enter Lamb to save the day.It took Lamb just 11 seconds to score his first triple of the evening, a dagger from the left corner. One possession later, Lamb stroked one from the top of the key. By the 12:13 mark of the first half, having just come off the bench, Lamb already had four 3-pointers to put the Cats up 29-11.A game in which Calipari worried his players would look ahead to the holidays a little too soon, Lamb and the Cats made sure to take care of business early on and ground the Eagles from the start.”I knew Brandon would come back, so I wasn’t really worried about the injury,” Lamb said. “He’s tough, so I wanted to come in the game, be aggressive and find my teammates and make open shots.”A player that’s been nicknamed “Instant Offense” for his ability to come off the bench and score right away, Lamb has embraced his role off the bench.”Doron has got it mastered,” Calipari said. “He’s loving it. No pressure on him. ‘When I come in, I’m lighting this thing up.’ He’s like, ‘Let me just keep coming off the bench. I like this.’ He doesn’t feel the pressure of it.”Lamb was only available for a few quotes after the game because he had to catch a flight to go home for the holidays, so fellow guard Knight was asked how tough it is to come off the bench cold and be asked to hit shots.”When you prepare for a game mentally and you warm up hard, you’re ready to come in and shoot shots like that,” Knight said. “That’s what you do. You’re able to come in and do it whether you start or not. Doron knows that when he comes in, that’s his job to score the basketball. He’s a shooter. When you give him an open shot, he’s going to be able to knock them down.”Lamb’s historic afternoon overshadowed Eloy Vargas’ best game in a Kentucky uniform. The junior-college transfer and former Florida Gator finished with eight points and three rebounds to complement his most aggressive game of the season.Junior guard DeAndre Liggins also had a balanced day with nine points and a career-high nine assists. UK did all of that without much production from leading scorer Terrence Jones (11 points, six rebounds).”Happy for Eloy,” Calipari said. “Maybe he sees some light now, how he’s got to play. He finally performed. And believe me, confidence is demonstrated performance. It’s not what I say, what I want him to do. You’ve got to demonstrate it to yourself and your teammates on the court, and he did it today.”But Wednesday was Lamb’s day, and in a sense, a reminder of how special Mashburn was in his heyday.”Jamal Mashburn, whether it’s someone scores more points than him or not, it does not matter,” Calipari said. “He changed the dimension of this program; no one else. Jamal got everybody together, did it together and all of a sudden it took off.”And yet Lamb, for one day, outdid one of the greatest freshmen and one of the all-time greats in the program.”It’s an honor,” Lamb said. “I’m from New York and he’s from New York. I’m happy to break his record.”