CATS GO 18-0 ON THE SEASON

18-0 at home anyway, but I’ll take it.  In the end Bledsoe had a great shooting day but made some very poor decisions.  The big men came up big at the end getting some key blocks including a beautiful rotation to the shooter by Orton to block the diminutive Erving Walker.  Cousins took a nice charge also with under two minutes to play when the game wasn’t yet sealed.

What started out looking like a blowout became an all too competitive game.  Kentucky should have run away with this one, but they had several stretches of sloppy play in the second half including a five minute period without a basket that hurt them.  Scoring droughts like that generally result in losses in the NCAA tournament.  Overall it was a little disappointing.  Not entirely dissimilar to the Georgia game.

These games don’t give me a lot of confidence in Kentucky’s ability to close it out against Kansas or Syracuse, but at the same time, guess what.  They won yet another game and they close the regular season at 29-2, and you can’t argue with those numbers.  You are what your record says you are.  My favorite part of this game was the crowd chanting with DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall, “One more year” and directing it at Patrick Patterson.  I’m thinking the crowd was talking to all three of you.  Here are your game stats.

We’ll have a more comprehensive breakdown of the game later including our take on the SEC tournament, so come back in a bit.

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