KSR - KSR Postgame UK MBB at Arkansas 1/31/26

Episode Date: February 1, 2026

Nick Roush and Billy recap the Cats' 85-77 win at Arkansas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We'll talk about it all tonight. Give us a call 859-280-2287. And joining me tonight in the celebration is the only KSR personality to pick the cats to beat Arkansas today. That is Nick Rausch, who is live in living color in studio. Woo! Feels good. It feels great. You know, there's a lot of haters.

There's a lot of doubters out there. I never had a doubt, Billy. Not for a second. And, you know, a lot of people, they criticized me a year ago because I was the only one. who picked Cal and Arkansas to come to Rup and win. Because here's the thing, I know Cal. I've seen this before. It's been 15 years of it, right?

Sometimes he does the thing where he gets to play the underdog card, us against the world, no pressure on, and he gets his guys playing great. Well, what happens when the shoe's on the other foot? And he's playing a team that's got really no pressure on him at all. They had nothing to lose down there at Bud Walton. It just come off a tough, tough loss. And Pope got his guys ready to go. Cal, they were not ready to go. And I could feel it.

I could feel it my plums. We knew this was going to happen. All the doubters out there, I'm sure all of you are going to call in and say, I knew the whole time. Don't kid yourself. Everybody expected a loss, but not everybody's ball knower, Billy. And you brought in, you were smart. You hit me up today and said, I need a ball knower. And so you got me in the seat. And we're, I'm so excited talking about this. One of the biggest wins of the Pope era, one that Kentucky fans are going to be talking about for a long, long, long, long time. I think you're exactly right, Nick. I mean, this win exercised some demons. There's no doubt. I mean, it's not going to completely correct the season and some of the struggles that they've had, but this could be a launching point for what

the rest of this year could be. We saw some great play again by Otega Owe. We saw Mark Pope get a technical. We saw a disgusting ref show that I'm sure we'll get maybe one or more call on, Nick. Yeah, yeah. But it's good to see you, buddy. Thanks for joining me here. Yeah, I'm happy to. I just, I'm, oh, man, it's just, this is, this is going to be a great night. So please join us, 859-28027.

We're going to be talking about this for the next hour. It's going to be so much fun. Pour yourself an ice-cold beverage and enjoy the spoils of war. Tonight's night, we get to relish. We get to enjoy. And let's do the mat thing. Let's talk about the how it all happened, the anatomy of an upset. How do you go on the road and beat a top 15 team when you're an underdog?

Well, first things first, you need your best player to play like it. And Otega O'A did that tonight. In non-conference play, you could tell something was a little off with him, right? Like something was just wasn't really there. You know, it's like, okay, you got 16 points, but it took you 13 shots to get there. Otega was a little off. He's been awesome in SEC play, and he was awesome again tonight, 24 points. And the funny thing I thought Billy is, you know, Frayne for Shilla.

He gets paid much more than we do to provide basketball analysis. And he's just, just put your head down and get to the rim. And it's like, it sounds really dumb, but just do it. And Otega O'A, he did it over and over and over again. Here's another thing, too, if you want to go on the road and win, what do you need to do? Don't start slow. Can you? I can't believe it.

No, I can't. Every, I mean, it felt like the last month, they've just been walking out there like Malik Thomas with a shovel going to work and digging them. themselves in a hole every single game. By the time that ESPN flipped it over, Kentucky was up 12 to 5. There was a lot of people who were just like, I don't want to flip it over to ESPNU. This game is almost over anyway. I'm not going to miss anything.

They're going to be done. Oh, no. Kentucky starts hot. They put game pressure on Arkansas. And when you're the underdog, you got to pop pressure intense moments. And the other part, like basketball is a shot making game. It's very simple. The team that makes shots, they're going to win. Kentucky made 54% of their shots.

More importantly, they outscored Arkansas by nine points at the three point line. They also made three more free throws. Not the best free throw shooting night for either team, Mr. Rutledge. Well, you talk about this fast start. I mean, they started 10 of 11 from the field. 10 of 11. I mean, how bad was the start versus Vandy? I think they were 3 of 20 to start that game.

To then go 10 of 11. I mean, I don't know if this team only thought that they had one game. this week and they were just so focused on beating Cal and Arkansas. But to go into your arena and beat your team, I heard that one before. Heard it before. It was just sweet. And just how much the loss last year was crushing.

We spent the entire year saying they had to win one game last year. It was Arkansas at Rupp Arena. For Pope to win this game now in Arkansas, when Arkansas is the highest rated team and the AP right now in the SEC at 15. And with how bad Kentucky's been playing, this is just, it's a momentous occasion. There's no doubt. And the other part, when you get in these games against big time teams,

like, let's face it, they're more talented to Kentucky, right? This is a flaw in Kentucky basketball team. Probably not going to be winning SEC championships and going to Final Fours, but they're good enough to beat good teams. It's just how do you react when things get tight? And let's be real. There was a moment there where a lot of that doubt, that first have joy and jubilation, people started thinking, oh God, they're going to lose

to Cal again because things got off the wire. When you want to upset a team on the road, you've got to weather the storm when things aren't going your way. And by God, Billy, I don't know if things could have gone worse for that short little stretch where three technical fouls were called in 38 seconds. Right wrong, up and down, up or down. I don't know if anybody could predict what Doug Schaels was going to do in those 38 seconds today. So the first one, Brandon Garrison. He earned it. He didn't. He didn't. He didn't. He didn't. He did a Brandon Garrison thing. He's a little tough guy thing. Which like, dude, you just, you just played awesome defense on Darius Acuff.

But, okay. But you don't have to just flex dim bones right over top of him. Like that was a very dumb, bggy thing. And like, okay, I get it. Let's move on. The technical that Doug shows called on Modiabate, I'm so glad, so, so glad that we are talking about this. after win. Oh, yeah. Because you sound like a sore loser to talk about bad calls after a loss. But Billy, it's not how perfectly to say that that might be the worst call in the history of officiating.

I mean, the hook, I guess it was last Saturday. Oh, yeah, the hook. Where O-A was getting grabbed. It was, that was a terrible call. Mo D just watched the shot and flexes in the crowd and Doug shows him up. What? What in what world? That is never, ever, ever a technical.

It happens every single time that something like that happens. This is the most basic basketball player. And Doug shows like, you know what? Time for me to be the center of attention. And then to make matters worse, Denzel Aberdeen, can we get a little urgency in the back court? Right. Like, I mean, come on. Get it up the court.

I thought he got across. I thought he made it in time. They called the 10-second violation. Pope loses it. he gets teed up. You know what? Good on you, Pope. Stand up for your guys.

That, the fact that they had all of that go wrong for them, 7-0 Arkansas run, it feels like all hope is lost. Credit to this team, who, how many times have people called in to this show and complained about the mental makeup of this team? Often. I mean, look at them. They kind of smiled.

They almost smiled in a press conference. They said, touch money when they were, breaking the people nitpicked this team to death but they have showed some real emotional resiliency

this year and they deserve credit for that especially in this one because they could have packed their bags and they could have called it today. You know what?

They didn't say Colin Chandler went down there hit a huge three to really do the sham wow and plug the leak right?

It calmed everybody down. It was nice they had a couple timeouts on the floor. But the fact that they weathered

that storm shout out to this Kentucky Wildcats team. Thank you for delivering a win that we can all celebrate tonight because that was one hell of a win. Well, you know, Tom and Goose thought the same thing about the Mo technical foul. I think we all did. But it was the double tech in the first half that got Goose's attention. You know where Owey got into a scuffle with the other guys. He's not taking anybody's BS in this game.

That is exactly what Jack was looking for. He talked about on the broadcast how I wanted to see some. fight from this team. Maybe not just figurative fight, but an actual fight. Like sometimes enough is enough. And maybe Kentucky had finally reached that breaking point going on the road. Everybody counting them out except Nick Rausch in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. When your back is against the wall, you see people play their best. And maybe that was a little bit of that tonight for Kentucky. Two players that deserve a shout out. Obviously, we're going to shout a bunch of him out. But Chandler hit that big

three. He had a huge and one right before half two that's going to get overlooked, but I don't know how the hell he made that. And then into the game, it's a six point game. Things are getting a little tight, right? We might be getting into a free throw shooting competition. I don't think anybody want to see either of these teams of the free throw shooting competition. Who knows what would happen. He comes in cold off the bench, hits the little fade away that gets it to eight

and really deliver the dagger. And then the other one is who Goose talked to in the post games, Trit Note. That guy... He looked great. I mean, he did what he needed. He needed to do. Tough. Yeah. Every tough rebound he gets. I know everybody wants to talk about his shooting ability. And frankly, it's, if there's one real big X-N-O's thing, Kentucky needs to do, that

guy's a great shooter. Run plays to get him shots, right? Can we do that? But it wasn't the threes that he hit. It said he was gritting and grinding some tough, tough rebounds. He's an undersized guy who is just out there against these NBA dudes like, no, I'm getting this rebound. You're going to foul me.

I'm going to go down and make two free throws at the other. He was shushing the crowd. I loved that. And hopefully, you know, maybe shushing some former Wildcat players who were very vocal online when Arkansas came in to Rupp Arena and beat Kentucky. Didn't see much of that after the game, Nick, which was strange. Yeah. Funny hell that works out. Which, speaking of funny, isn't it hilarious to just look at the Arkansas bench?

I mean, like Chin Coleman? Oh, yeah. It's all of those guys. I mean, I wish we got a little bit more crowd work from ESPN. They're terrible at their jobs. They don't know how to run a college basketball game. You'd think with all the games they have, they would know how to really maximize the broadcasts. They stink at it.

Replays, whole nine yards. I hadn't seen a lot of cow shots, and there was one timeout where they go towards the bench, they see Cal. And then you see Kenny Payne just sitting there doing nothing, his signature look, right? And then Chuck Martin, his pocket square, it looked like a bouquet of flowers. Like, Chuck, you don't have to be that loud, man. Like, I can, I can hear you through my TV and your mouth's closed. And usually it's a bruiser who's chopping on that gum. Oh, chin.

Just, that poor gum. Yeah. Oh, poor bastards. Well, you know, as you were looking at the sideline, people were also looking into the stands where there was a Kentucky fan with a sign that said, what was it, we missed you, Cal. I miss you, Cal. Yeah, yeah. And I think that would have had a little bit more gravity.

if Kentucky would have lost that game. But now, you know, Cal said Mark Pope was the perfect man for this job. And I'm not going to wipe away all the criticism we've given Pope this year. He deserves plenty of it. He hasn't lived up to expectations, especially with this roster. But is there a chance that he is the right guy for this job? I think it's silly to do a lot of the torches, pitchforks. We're going to throw him out of town thing when pretty much every important player he's had

gotten injured. So like, and that's notwithstanding Jane Quauntains. Criticize him all you want. That was a risk he took for that guy. But I will give Pope a lot of credit for masking his mistake. His big mistake this offseason was that he got away from his formula. Right. Like the way that Mark Pope coaches basketball teams, it's not what the roster built like this. He felt like he needed to build a roster like this to win games like tonight against Arkansas and the SEC. Well, you know what? He doesn't really know how to coach that way, though. So that's what's gotten us into this predicament to this point, because he's not used to coaching guys like this.

Not a lot of shooters and space the floor out. But you know what? He's figured it out. And you've got to tip your cap to him, give him a lot of credit. Another top 15 win. I know Corey Price had a stat for that. But last year, Kentucky set the record for top 15 wins against AP opponent. So add another one to him.

I guess that's 10 so far in his short two-year tender. He has still plenty to prove. But, and, and a lot to work on. But to go out and get your guys to bounce back after that Vanderbilt game, right? Because a lot of what people question Pope about Billy is, it's that intangible stuff. Pope's soft. Is he even screaming?

Is he built for this? He can't do it. He took one to the chin. His team, they got their ass kicked. That was as bad as it could get on Tuesday. And what did he do? He got his guys back in the gym. They didn't waver.

didn't flinch and he got him ready to play. They started fast for the first time forever. They fixed some big problems. What a concept. It's not a perfect team. It's not going to be a perfect team, but they're going to deliver some fun wins. And I know there's a lot of people out there right now listening.

They probably said, hey, we're not going to get a lot. But if we could just get one, get the one at Arkansas. If they didn't say that, they said get the one at Tennessee. Well, he got both of them. And then embarrassed against Vandy. But then you come back and win a big game like this. It's impossible to predict, unless you're Nick Roush. Unless you're Nick Roush predicting, making the picks.

Will they pay me the big bucks, Billy? You ready to take some calls? Oh, cannot wait to take some calls. It's going to be a glorious postgame show. Drinking Arkansas tears, we're going to be calling the hogs. 859-2802-87. Get your hog in there, boy. Give us a call.

We'll hand the reins over to Nick Rous some more here on the local Toyota dealers, KSR post-game show. This is the local Toyota dealers, KSR post-game show. I'm Nick Rausch. You think I'm a football guy, but I'm also a basketball no-er. And I'm hanging out with Billy R. Sports, Billy Rutledge and the beautiful, look at that scenic downtown. You all got a great up here in a hard. You got to see the behind-the-scenes on game day, too. I know.

You got to see the operation. People, you work hard, Billy. There's a lot of cutting and editing. There's a lot going on here. Well, thank you. And you deserve a tip of the cap. It was very cool driving in, and there was some college guys who were bounced around between bars, doing Kat's Chance on Vine Street.

It feels right, doesn't it? Oh, man. Feels so good to get a big win. We're going to talk about it all night. We're going to talk about it with you. Give us call 859-280-2287. Who we got first, Billy? All right, let's start with Richard.

Richard, you're up first. Hey, what a night. Isn't it great to be a Kentucky fan? So good. Three injuries of our best players. We don't get any of the players we go for first. we get, I mean, how much adversity does this fan base go through? And you know what?

I appreciate you talking about the people who have doubted Pope or unfairly criticized them. Yes, we've had bad games and bad decisions and mistakes and we've laid eggs. But you wouldn't have thought we just came off a five-game winning streak. You wouldn't have thought that we beat the best Duke team since Zion Williamson with a bunch, with a roster of, you know, guys who weren't great, weren't big targets and weren't big players. But they came here and Pope coached them into a win over Cooper Flagg. He coached them over,

he coached them through a win over the Florida Gators who won the national championship. We won against Tennessee three times now. The Illinois, I think Pope, if you don't think Pope is the guy, what else do you want? This is going to be a long. term culture build, like Izzo and Michigan State. In five years, he's not going to have to preach to anyone, not fans, not recruits about what Kentucky is. He's going to have built it. It will be self-evident in our wins, in our, you can already tell the rough atmospheres changed.

I mean, we boo players because we're amped. No other fan base in the country is going to do that. No other fan base in the country is going to light up like we do in those games where we did boo. When we get hot, we are a very loud crowd. And I mean, no matter, and if you're a recruit looking at this, what else do you want? I mean, literally, what else do you want? I want more wins like this. And that's, that's what's beautiful, is that it can change so quickly. It can change on the drop of a hat. You can think that everything is going down the toilet, and then you go on the road. You beat your former coach who's got his best point guard.

That's the thing with Cal. Cal's at his best when he has an outstanding point guard. He's got one of those guys. And Kentucky, did he make a shot in the first half, Billy? I don't think he did. Kentucky brought their A game. They did. They did.

And I got to say, I mean, for a fan base that was told that they're unrealistic this morning. Yeah, we got to talk about that. For a fan base that, you know, went through Cal and him coming back to Rup and getting that win, I think this was cathartic. I mean, in a lot of ways, this is, I think, if people were teetering on getting off, maybe the Pope bus, maybe they're jumping back on it after a win like this. It's very funny, Billy, because I tried to look up Seth Greenberg, KSR, and there are like 10 articles of him explaining to fans.

There's one unwarranted arrogance where he just thinks Kentucky basketball fans' expectations are too high. Billy, how many years did it take John Calipari to win a national championship? Not many. Three, three. Took him two to get to a final four. How many years it took Toby Smith to win a national championship? Not many at all. Yeah, took him one.

Took Rick four years to get to a final four. And one of those was on probation. Joby Hall. It didn't take him long to get to a final four either. Kentucky fans have final four expectations because we are Kentucky basketball. We set the standard. It's a very high one. I don't care if it's gold, silver, platinum, whatever it may be.

We have high expectations. We do not like when Kentucky loses about 25 points. We are going to be pissed. That's right. And you deserve to be mad for that. But you know what? As long, I feel like if you, I'm not going to tell you how to fan. I'm just only going to stay mad at the things that I think actually matter.

And one of those is, hey, Pope, you can't keep digging yourself into double-digit deficits and expect to pull a rabbit out of your hat. You did it twice. and you got really lucky with that LSU won. Like, it was really lucky. So you couldn't keep doing that, and you know what? You got it fixed. And, you know, I don't, I probably disagree with that caller on like five years.

Then we'll judge it. No, no, no. This is a different time in college basketball. But it's good to see his coaching chops come out. Well, and also guys that you thought may have checked out still be really involved. I mean, Mo Diabate was screaming at his teammates. recently, and he's making some of the biggest rebounds every game. And you can talk bad about Brandon Garrison. I mean, he makes some stupid mistakes at times. He had a pass today that made

one of the best passes I've seen all year. Oh, and then like a possession or two later, he misses his first shot and then banks it and off the glass. I mean, he's going to bank it. Like, you know that's going to happen. But like, easy for those guys to go a different direction. Especially Mo Dee when they sent him to the bench. You thought he was just checked out for the rest of the year, but no, three blocks a night. Three huge blocks. Without your three best players, too. Incredible. Who we got up next, Billy? Nate is up next. Nate now.

What's up? Hey, you called me exactly the way people call me here in Mount Sterling. How's everybody doing tonight? Shout out Mount Sterling. Let's go. So basically, I just want to call in and talk about it. They came out and they fought. Despise the Doug Show show.

Obviously, he always wants to put on a show. He wants to, I guess he wants the crowd to look at him. But also, I'll touch on another couple points real quick. There was no me and team tonight. they shared the ball well. If Yellovich can score 7 and 9 points every outing, along with the bench, especially Trent Noah, that surplus we can beat anyone.

Also, I think the freshman, especially Jasper Johnson coming up with those two quick bells, they're still learning college ball, and that's a problem. I'll hang up and let you all talk. Oh, thanks, Nate. I think for me, Billy, the role players work if you get two of them to play well. They don't have to do it every night, right?

I forget what game it was where Jasper had like 11 points in the first half that really kept the boat afloat. These games kind of all run together. But tonight he came in 2004 seconds. It was not going to be his night. And you know what? It wasn't Yellovich's night either, right? Yellovich, he does some things that are, whoa, oh, okay, that's pretty nice. Like that three, that I don't know how the hell that thing went.

That was a prayer. but he gets lost in the interior defense. The interior defense of Kentucky is so late on rotating. I mean, the amount of lobs they got in the first half because Yellovich got caught with his hands in his pockets. It just couldn't happen, right? So Trent Noah comes in and he makes a scrappy place. Now, when you go to the three-two zone,

okay, sometimes Trent Noah, the six-foot-10 guy's going to catch the ball over him and score, right? But you take the good with the bad, you get two of those role players, to step up, play well. And next game, it might be Jasper's game next time out, right? As long as you got two of them stepping up, ready to go, then you can make this thing successful.

There is a next man up mentality with this team, and there's nothing that better encapsulates that. By a quick quiz, Nick, who was the plus minus leader by Kentucky Joey? Oh, oh, man. I'm going to guess Noah. Malachi Moreno, who was plus 16 in 27 minutes, played terrible against Vandy, Nick. Unplayable against Vandy.

And now he is the plus-minus leader with 11 points and seven rebounds. I mean, that is a mentality that can take you a long way if other guys are going to pick each other up. A couple big blocks. And the way they use them into the pick and roll too, got a couple dunks that stopped Arkansas from building momentum. Right. Because that's the, when you got a big leader like that, just don't let the other team go

on a 10-0 run. Yeah. Now, sometimes Doug Shows might show up and keep. you three techs and they go on a seven-oh run in the blink of an eye but you can get them back which we didn't talk about that the other technical they called on Arkansas the UN tech where he threw the ball and then stepped on his head and now I do you think he meant to step on his head I don't know I think he meant the ball I don't know about the step in yeah yeah yeah but it was definitely a oh yeah you got a tea that guy being called it had he had to get a tea had to had to and I mean

Mo got a tea for screaming at the crowd. Arkansas guys were doing the exact same thing later in the game and they weren't getting a tea. That is really a testament to a human ego impacting a game when they're not one of the teams' plans. I will say, though, Billy, you know, this is not an easy job. I dabbled in officiating back in the day. Oh, please don't stand up for the refs on this one. Well, I'll tell you what, there's no more difficult a game to officiate than third and fourth grade girls basketball on Dixie Highway.

Okay? Let me tell you. When you got to tell them, all right, you can't just run all the way to the rim. Like you can walk, you can shuffle your feet a little. You can't run to the rim. When you call them for a travel and their parents are ready to run out of the stands and tackle you, that's a tough gig, all right? So Doug shows, I know you like to be the center of the attention, but I can relate to

how hard it is sometimes to deal with you. Well, he better not be at the final four. Who do you think? Who do you think he hates more? Kentucky or Cal? That was the question. I think we were supposed to learn tonight. And I think it's Kentucky. The funny part of it all, my favorite thing that college basketball reps do is when they call it one way for one half. And then the second half, they're like, no, no, no, we are calling it completely different.

I mean, they were just... The whistle tightens up a little bit, and it just completely changes the game. Well, and you know what? Credit to Kentucky for realizing, hey, they're going to call everything, but we're going to get to the free throw line. We're going to put our heads downhill. Like Franfichichita said, we're going to get. get to the rim, we're going to draw some fouls. And that technical, that second one, it was a five-point possession.

Kentucky got a lot. I mean, it felt like they got whatever back that they gave up from that earlier seven. And then, I mean, hell, Trent Noah is getting slung around at the end of the game, too. Yeah, you could, if it was tighter, Doug shows would have taught, like, he would have teed him up so quick, but it was like, ah, there's 15 seconds left. We don't need to be here any longer. Let's just get out of here. Let's take another call, Nick. Let's do it.

Jay is up next. What about Jay? Hey, thanks for taking my call, Nick and Billy. I just had to call in. What a great win for the cats. I'm actually calling in for my aunt Doris. My aunt Doris was 94 years old. She lived in Bremen, Kentucky in Mulemberg County.

She died earlier this week, and we had her funeral earlier today. And I'm actually a pastor, and she wanted me to speak at her service. And so at the end of my remarks, I said, I sure hope she's pestering. St. Peter to help the cats find a way to beat those nasty razorbacks. And so I think at least part of the credit needs to go to my Aunt Doris. And so I wanted to shout her out on this night of victory for the cats and shout out to my Aunt Doris Jones in heaven. And thanks for taking the call and let's go cats. Shout out to Aunt Doris, who's, uh, Mulemberg County's fine is certainly celebrating in paradise tonight.

Needle in St. Peter's up there. Oh, man. I'm hoping for a little help. I love that. And that's, you know, Kentucky basketball, that's why Seth Greenberg irritates me so much when he tries to lecture us on our fandom. You don't know how much it means to us.

You have no clue. It bonds. It brings families together. We live and die with this stuff. And so if we're going to get a little irrational from time to time, so be it. Stephen Peake in his video from a week ago. I mean, this is, this.

This is our thing. And you know what? If you think we're bad, Seth, go ask Eagles fans how they feel about their team. Right? Like, you think that Kentucky's the only fan base? I'm watching the Tennessee volunteers right now. You think they're a bunch of angels?

Golf balls. God, Seth. Let's lecture us some more. Old man. Oh, man. Do we got to get to a break? We do, but let's take one more. All right, one more call.

Badger is up next. Ooh. Hey, guys. Real quick, thanks for taking my call. Shout out, Ann Doris. My old man used to say on the road in the SEC, you eat what they feed you. And our boys are eating on hog tonight.

And I grew up in the Patino, Tubby Smith era. And this was a throwback win. Marquise Escal, Keith Bogans, Tashon, Prince, Nazi Muhammad, Jeff Shepard, Cameron Mills, all my heroes, they're eating on hog high tonight, and I appreciate it, boys.

Hey, go cats. Go cats. Billy, you ever been to a road win? I know you're usually cooped up in here. No, no. I've only been to like two games, period, because I can't get out of here. Well, one day we're going to get you out of here.

We're going to get you to a road game. I will contend. I like that one, too. Eat what they feed you. I will contend that there is no more intoxicating drug in the world than winning on the road. Because it's such a, there's a small band of brothers there. And then when you just get to see those fans leave so sad, it is, oh, it's so satisfying. I've been to Bud Walton.

Don't do as many basketball games because we've got an army at KS. Yeah, yeah. I go to all the football games. but back in 2020 one of the road games I did was at Arkansas brought my dad I'm about tickets we'll sit together in the upper road deck

after the game I'll work and we'll figure it out and that was the game that Cal got ejected and it is without a doubt the loudest I've ever it's the loudest experience of my life maybe except for like a show at Cosmic Charlie's when I was in college where you're right next

of the speakers and it's just hammering you in the eardrums but we were I mean we were sitting next to each other having to cover our ears. It was so loud. If you go back and watch the replay, it immediately covers his ears. It was that loud. And then Kentucky went on a 17-2 run. In that place, you couldn't hear anything, and then you could hear me and my old man screaming from the upper deck. I mean, it was so satisfying to watch them leave such a big game. They thought they finally got Cal and they didn't. And you see another Kentucky fan, maybe you give them a high five. Nothing better than a high five with a random stranger. Oh, and your hand

almost hurts afterwards because you smack it so hard. And then to see them just to wave by by to them as they're leaving the stands. They've been probably trash talking the entire game. To see them pack up, grab their coats and leave early tonight. Oh, that's beautiful. Well done, cats. Shout out to all you been. If anybody made the trip to Northwest Arkansas, I'd love to hear from you. 859-280 2287 want to hear how you got to celebrate the big win by the Wildcats, Ed, Bud, Walden, and Rita. 8577. We're going to take a breaking it to your calls right after this. Welcome back into the local Toyota Deers, KSR Post-Game Show.

Nick Roush. Fillen in for Matthew Harper-Jones, standing alongside, sitting alongside, Billy Rutledge here in beautiful downtown Lexington, where it might be the coldest it's ever been in the Commonwealth. It's freezing. It's freezing out there. I have one of those guys, too, you know, a big football guy. But, like, I'm a big dude.

Like, six, six, you know, there's a furry guy. Like, I love when it's like 40, 30 degrees. Like, oh, perfect. Just throw on a light jacket. We're good to go. No, this is, have your parka or else you will free. How do the people live in Chicago or Minnesota? They're just tougher than us.

And maybe more used to it than we are. This is, it's been so cold for so long. And I'm glad that it's, it was hot inside Bud Walton Arena. 54% from the field. One thing that I didn't want to overlook when talking about the game tonight, Denzel Aberdeen, I don't care what the rest of his stat line was, zero turnovers. Zero. Now, I guess they didn't give him credit for that 10 second goal that happened.

Oh. I don't. They didn't give him the turnover? I guess not. I don't know. But it says zero. It says zero next to his name. He had 10 points, hit a couple of threes.

We needed that second. Well, while you're highlighting Denzel Aberdeen, why don't we give away a Johnny Rocker personal injury attorney moneymaker of the game? Oh, Nick. Injured? Get small town compassion with big city results when you call the Rocker at 270321-4429. And I think it's an obvious choice tonight, Nick. It's going to be the guy that led you in points. We don't always do that for the Johnny Rocker.

But here's the thing, though. Otega O.A didn't just lead you in points. And I thought this was a great point that Goose made afterwards. he was tasked with guarding Darius A-Cuff most of the night. Yes. And, you know, if a couple of those free throws were up short because he was playing good defense on A-Cuff, so be it. It took 20 shots for A-Cuff to get, what, 22 points? Yes.

He was great. And you needed that, you needed the, is it the Rockaway player? Johnny Rocker, Moneymaker. The money-maker. Of the game. Well, you need your best player to be your money-maker. You need him to be the obelisk that everybody looks to. I mean, how money is 24 points on 12 shots?

I mean, he didn't make three, but guys was efficient. He had eight rebounds as well leading the team. What a warrior. 38 minutes, one turnover. Otega showed the fight tonight, and that's why he's our moneymaker of the game. Till the battle is won. That's right. And I apologize, I haven't played any Tom T. Hall yet.

We've been busy. I'll play it. I promise. I want to call the hogs, too. Oh, you want to do the woo pig sui? You know, we can adapt it. I mean, Drew was singing Rocky Top. Drew was singing Rocky Top on this postgame show.

Oh, man. How funny is it, Cal, watching Cal stand over there and have to call the hogs. You know, Cal is a fun run, but have fun down there with Chin. Right? Yeah. Chomping away on that gum. Man, how swaggy was Brad tonight? Oh, yeah.

I mean, he was going to bring it for the Kentucky game. You know that. Do you think he lines up his own beard, or does he have a barber to it? Oh, Barber. Yeah, there's no way he can line that up himself, right? No, no, no, no. Not Brad. Back to the phones?

Let's go back to the phones. All right, we got loaded lines. Let's keep them rolling. Fuzzy is up next. Hey, guys. Appreciate you taking the call tonight. It was an awesome night. It was one of more frustrating games I've ever tried to watch with all of the technicals

and the back and forth, just trying to take the air out of the game. But I couldn't be more excited, more happy. losing the cow last year at home, finally getting to take him down, especially at Arkansas. I mean, we beat Tennessee at Tennessee. That's my dad's favorite game of the years every time we get to beat Tennessee, especially on the road. But we also beat Louisville in our home gym last year. Like, I've been big on Pope ever since he came in. I think he's done a lot to turn this program around. Yeah, he's still got a long way to go. Yeah, this team's still got a long way to go. But I think we're doing an awesome job. So I'm happy. Everybody's happy. Ryan Lemon's definitely happy.

that dude's my spirit animal when he yanks his shirt off at the bar. And then last thing is, you know, shout out, Aunt Doris. I'll give you a high-five when I see you in heaven. You know, go cats. Go cats. Amen to that. Ryan Lemon was certainly, he was having a good time tonight. He predicted a blowout loss on the pregame show.

We all did, besides Nick Roush, by the way. But, I mean, when Ryan takes his shirt off at KS Bar and Grill, is there a more happening celebration spot in Lexington? I just... when you, is that a good thing that we want people to know like, hey, come to KS. Bar, you might get to see Ryan take a shirt off. Well, if you asked Matt no, I think he would, he said we're going to do a New Year's Eve resolution where we're not going to talk about nudity on the air or take your shirt off. And then, I mean, after you beat Arkansas, Nick. I mean, you got to do that. Yeah, maybe eat some Tyson chicken nuggets.

Diet starts tomorrow. Yeah. Oh, definitely tomorrow. Well, no, after next Sunday, because Super Bowl, you get the apps out, you know. There's still time to get to the New Year's resolution. We'll get to those. I saw Matt retweet his video of thanking the Arkansas, the chicken man. He's been getting a lot of crap for that. Oh, man.

Well, the chicken man. I hope you enjoyed that loss tonight, buddy. Hope it tastes good. Eating that L. What we got next, Billy? Pathieu. Pathew is up next. Good evening, gentlemen.

So Billy was there, of course. Last time I called for the Billy R Sports Postgame show, after the Missouri Lake, Missouri loss, I called in and said that our program is broken, that we're not making the tournament. And I want to take this opportunity to apologize to Mark Pope, the staff, and the players for that. As a lifelong Kentucky, I know that we are never out of the fight. We always find a way to divide the odds. And while this team is not perfect and we may be down right now, we are most certainly not out.

Great unexpected effort tonight by Trent Noah. It's an effort that we're going to need going forward this season. I love the grit we saw from this team tonight in battling adversity and battling the refs, of course, to accomplish what they did. Don't want to get my hopes up too high just yet, but in the words of our former coach, I like my team. Let's take care of the next two at home. Let's break some hearts and gamesville on Valentine's Day.

Go Cass. And to Arkansas, Max, eat it. Yeah, eat it, Max. Thanks so much for calling it and Pat, Pat, you. I think it's worth noting that as, I mean, Kentucky's won six out of seven, They will be tied for second in the SEC. Correct. Standings right now.

15 and 7, 6 and 3. And does A&M play tomorrow? No, tomorrow's Florida and Bama, I believe. I got to see. I was thrown off whenever I was seeing a Sunday SEC game. That's weird. But as far as nobody, Kentucky has the most difficult schedule in the country going down the pipe. But to your point, you got Oklahoma coming into town, Nigel Pack, Porter Moser,

that's a winnable game and then the Valls already beat them you have already beat them you have already beat them you've least got to split them I think the other part that we have to remember to whenever everything is bad and you're kicking rocks down the street

oh this isn't a tournament team they stink you know what there's a lot of that large bits I believe 37 if I'm not mistaken they got to go to somebody and Kentucky is stacking up quad one wins this one Tennessee at St. John ones. They're stacking them up. This resume is not going to be the prettiest, but you know what?

The SEC's pretty wide open right now. Take care of business at home. Still a couple here and there on the road. I mean, South Carolina looks downright bad. You got to win that one. Auburn is, I mean, Steven Pearl's their coach, so anybody's got a chance. It reminds me, you know, don't like a lot of things Bobby Knight said, but there was one quote he had after a game where Indiana. They'd be trailing to LSU. He said, were you ever worried? He's like, you know, just looked over the other bench and I saw Dale Brown coach and I knew

he had a chance. That's how I feel when you look over there and you see Stephen Pearl, right? There's always a chance when Stephen Pearl's on the other sideline. So the SEC's wide open and Kentucky. Second right now at the end of January. Who?

Without their three best players. Who would have thought this a month ago? No, buddy. Exactly. So, like, it's imperfect and it's not. It doesn't look like the Monstars by any means. But you know what? They're getting the job done. Todd is up next. What's up, Todd? Hey, tonight before the game, I kind of prepared myself for a loss after hearing everybody give their predictions and everything. And then after seeing what we did against Vanderbilt. And I was very pleasantly,

surprised and just tickled to death. We still need to work on our help defense. No doubt. You know, we did well tonight. And I don't think I have ever seen a game where there were six technical fouls called. Have you? Todd, that, it's one of those where I don't want to be prisoner of the moment,

but I think I can safely say that I don't think I've ever seen a game with six technical thing outside of a brawl or something like yeah like that that that that was unbelievable Todd right and I don't know why they didn't throw Brazil out when he found no way out there now that was malicious that was absolutely a sore loser acting like it yeah then no it certainly was and I think that's one of those times where they're just like you know what there's 10 seconds left just get them off the court what's in this game go cry in your locker room hogs i've got one more question see if you uh if any of you all know it you're a belly um i've been noticing here lately where players get the ball and they're falling out of bounds they call time out now

used to we could you know it could be done and they changed that rule to where you couldn't do it anymore. And it's evidently they must have brought it back. Do you know if they have brought that back and when they brought it back? I think, Todd, you just have to have a foot on the ground. You can't be jumping out of bounds mid-air and call the timeout.

So that one play where they threw it down to Oway in the corner, if his foot doesn't touch out, he could have called a timeout. He could have burned one there, but instead he got his toe on the line. that was a turnover that made fans about a little longer. You had that possession to call a timeout, right? Correct. Correct. But I wasn't really talking about our game tonight on that.

I've just watched other college games and guys, they appear to be in the air flying out of bounds. They call time out, the referee gives them the time out. And I thought, well, I didn't think that was, I thought they stopped that, you know. And then I saw it again. And I thought, well, maybe they brought it back.

I just like to know when they brought it back. Well, I don't know if they've actually brought it back or not, Todd, but I do appreciate you calling in tonight hanging out with this on the local Toyota dealers, KSR postgame show. I do like that they've brought out the coaches challenge rule. And another one give credit what credits do. Pope, sometimes you're like, are you sure you want to do this? But he is a good challenger. Yeah, it was two for two the other night, right?

Yeah. And now he's, you got that one. And you're just, you worry seven minutes in the first half. Are you really going to do it now? but the guys knew, the players knew, and it was clearly out on A-Cuff. That was a quick reversal. Yeah, no doubt.

Let's keep it rolling before we've got to take a break here. Let's get rolling, rolling, rolling. Zella is up next. Hey, Zella. First, time, long time. Hula. After going one-in-one this week, where do you think we sit on, like, seating?

Hmm. So, Zella, I don't know where the bracketology might, have us. Exactly. I feel like this is a team that's probably around a 7, 6, 7, and could get as high as a 5. But, I mean,

you've got to be near the top of the SEC at the end of the year. You've got to be playing for one of those top 4-bos. So I predict that Kentucky's going to be in that 7-10 game, Zella. So with a two-seed waiting for him in the round of 32. Hey, here's my sister,

A-Vitt. She wants to say something. Okay. Um, how about that Diovote technical? That was ridiculous. Terrible. So bad. But you know what? You all are so good.

I appreciate your calling in and hanging out with us tonight. Go cats. Thank you. Go cats. Look at that. Yeah. That was a good call. Yeah.

Although, like, I mean, it's 11th. It's past their bed done probably, right? You got to let the kids stay up after big wins. That's true. Core memories. Yeah. And you also were so excited. You got to run the energy out, too.

Just kind of run it. out. Just don't run outside. It's too cold to be running around outside. Just go run around so you could get tired. We had, we called it Roush Arena in the basement where we had a full court of Fisher price goals. And when I say full court, I mean, it's the size of this small room, right? You know, 10 feet to the next. But hey, you could run, you can run full court. Get after it. Get them started early. Oh, yeah. Have to. Have to. Let's take a break. Let's do it. And then we got six calls on the other side. And that'll be it. That's it. Wait, this is flying by.

We've already gone. We're having so much fun. And you know what? I will say, I'm a little disappointed. I thought we would have a few more people who have been, you know, getting after it. They may be just getting started. Like, you know, it may just be time to celebrate now. Like Mark Stoves.

It's getting started, bro. Hello, Nick Roush. Oh, we'll get to your calls in the final segment. 859-28027. One final segment here on the local Toyota dealers. KSR post game show with Nick and Billy. right after this. Here I am in this dang bed

and who's going to feed them hogs. Mark Pope. He's feeding them hongs with a big O.L. Because the cats went to Bud Walton Arena, sold out crowd, ready to dance on the Wildcats' graves. But not so fast, my friends. Kentucky escapes with an 8577 win.

We've got one final segment here on the local Toyota dealers. KSR post game show. I'm Nick Rouch. Please, Billy Rutledge. Man, this has been fun. Time flies when you're having fun, Billy. It does.

And it's great to have you in studio. You know, you drove up for this. Yeah. So I appreciate that. Mm-hmm. And Kentucky wins a game where they only hit six three-pointers, Nick. Which, when they went on that five-game winning streak, a big part of that was because of their three-point shooting.

Cats got hot, right? When you're making a bunch of threes, it's easy. They had to grit and grind this one out. Classic college basketball game where 45 fouls are called in a 40. Medicaid. The Doug Show Show, everybody. And you know what? I have been informed. Todd was right. They brought back the you can jump up in the air and call a time out rule. Okay. Well, you don't even need to have a foot down. Is that what you're telling me? Yeah. Yeah. They brought that back a couple years ago. Once you have the ball, you can call a timeout? As long as you have possession, you can give it a go. I didn't realize that either. So we, we, everybody's learning something. We're getting learned here on the local Toyota. There's KSR post game show.

We've got some people who've been waiting a while. So let's not make him wait much longer there, Mr. Rell. Who we got? We got six on the line. So let's get to all of them before we leave. Brian. Six or seven? Six.

Oh, well, we'll see. We'll see. Six seven. Brian is up next. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, people. I have children. Hey, gentlemen.

How are you doing? We're jubilant, joyous, slap happy almost. Awesome. Well, I'm glad because let me tell you something. I have been a KSR listener for a very long time, and I've also been a listener of the KSR post game, pregame, you name it, podcast, blah, blah, blah. This is the very first time I have ever called in to a UK postgame show

because I know how hard it is to get in, especially if Matt's there. So this is my inaugural effort, so yay me. You did it. made it. I finally made it in, and it's awesome. Let me tell you something like, guys. I have a unique perspective. I moved to Little Rock, Arkansas in 2001 for a job. I was down there until end of 2014. The first eight games that Kentucky played Arkansas after I moved to Arkansas, we won. So I was flying my flag loud and proud. So I have a unique perspective. on what Arkansas is, what they think of basketball, so on and so on.

You know how much they hate Kentucky. Like, they probably hate Kentucky more than any other school, right? Because they don't really have a rival, like a true rival. It feels like particularly in basketball, they get their knobs out for Kentucky. There's no win they want more than to beat Kentucky every year, and it doesn't happen often. you are correct and I'll tell you this long before I move there obviously the epic Kentucky Arkansas SEC championship game robert grows misses the free throws goes the overtime we're down now with like 10 minutes or 10 seconds left come come back and win

it I mean it was a huge robbery in 90s obviously with Petino and and and it you know I was there when when Norm Richardson unfortunately, I lost that game in 01, and that's when he kind of, you know, I don't want to get into that kind of stuff. We don't need to get into it. Yeah. He lost his wig there, and it went south and blah, blah. You know, Arkansas fans didn't care much for basketball after that. Sure, they were huge in the 90s.

I obviously won a title, and won the next year they came back and lost the end of the championship game. But anyway, it's interesting. I have such a unique respect on it. but what I want to kind of get at for this game, at least, is that, you know, we suffered that loss last year at home to Cal. And it was funny. I listened to a lot of radio shows during the week. And everybody was like, you know, Cal always kind of left his guard down

in one big game where he's a huge, you know, he's a huge favorite and yada, yada, yada, and I'll be honest, I didn't think we had a shot. but after the first few minutes, when we were at 14 to 5, I think, I was like, man, this just feels like one of those games. And it played itself out. Referees tried to alter it, man. I know two shows. I know a good shows and a bad shouts, and the bad shouts showed up at the worst time. And I thought he was going to cost us.

Man, our guys came back, man. I don't know where this team's going to go. it's flawed. We have a lot of injuries and all that. And that's everything everybody talked about. But it was very satisfying to watch that the night. I'm only two days removed for my birthday. So I'm taking this as a birthday present.

Thank you. Very happy about it. Very happy about it. Nick, you're the man. I know I think last year you only wanted to pick the game the other way, but you picked it the other way this year too. So good on you, brother. Keep doing what you do.

I appreciate it, man, and I'm glad you got to drink up that birthday win, even though it is a little bladed. Yeah, birthdays, you get a little bit older billy. They don't matter as much. Yeah, do they mean anything after 26? Because then I had to get my own health care. You know, you hit 30. Like 30 is like, okay, we'll do something fun for it. So, you know, maybe you make an excuse to go out a little bit more, but no. They don't matter as much. What does matter is when you go out, you get a big win on the road. And the cats, they got one tonight. Man, taste so sweet. It sure does. Oh, I do wish, so it's not this week, but it's the next week where there's not a midweek game.

It would have been nice if you just got to sit in this one a little bit, roll around in it, bathe in it a little more. But Oklahoma, they're coming to Rupp Arena, 9 p.m. late tip off on Wednesday night at Rupp. Evan is up next. Nick Rouse. Evan, my man. I was telling my wife before the game how excited I was about you doing the post game tonight because I said if the cat somehow pull off an upset, I'm calling in because Nick Rauch is the absolute man. I appreciate it, Evan.

Yeah, so all this chatter about Pope, I mean, obviously there are some deficiencies there. We all know about them. We're concerned about recruiting next year. Oh, yeah, got to be. all my family members and friends that are huge UK fans, for some reason they will not give enough merit to the fact that Pope is coaching a team without three starters right now. Yeah, three.

And we listen to Goose Givens on the Leach Report or post-game, talking about practice and timing and everything, how important is to have your team spending time together and jelling. The fact that we go out there, and win a road game against the top 15 team with the Hall of Fame coach and get that win without three starters is absolutely massive for a program. And I'm so happy for Mark Pope and the entire team. Just think about this.

Take the Chicago Bulls when they won the six titles. Take three starters off that team. Do they win any titles? No. I mean, they figure it out if it's, you know, Horace Grant and Steve, Kerr and who's another one of those random three. But Bill Cartwright. There you go. Maybe they can figure it out because, you know, Otega is R. Jordan.

But it's hard to do it. And I think the other part that makes it hard too, Evan, that we overlook, it's not just that Pope got a different kind of player this year. He got, it's a very young team, a very inexperienced team. I mean, the minutes that Trent Noah and Malachi Moreno, like these guys, they didn't have a bunch of minutes under their belt going into this year. They've, they, Hey,

uh, Mo was smarter from tonight because he didn't take any goofy outside shots. Yeah, played his ass off. Got huge rebounds, played great defense. And then Otega's defense on a cuff was spectacular tonight.

But let me finish the call by saying one thing. I've got a crazy cousin in Russell County, Kentucky. Jonathan Greider, a.k.a. J. Rock. my two-man partner for the infamous Rolling Hills two-man championship that we won this last year. He sent a text to my family stream this morning. He called this win this morning.

So kudos to J. Rock Grider. Congratulations. He won a bunch of money. Yeah. Go, Kat. Congrats. It feels good to line your pockets with Draft King's money. Always feels good.

Who else predicted the Katz win today? I know a guy who was dancing. and jumping up and down, lining his pockets with some draft Kings cash. The hard part is Otega Owe is your Jordan. I mean, normally he should be your second or third guy, right? Not the guy. But, I mean, he was the guy down the stretch last year. He was awesome and they did into Oklahoma games.

Now, the part where you can be, like, yes, Pope's down three starters, but let's be honest. It was a gamble that he was ever going to have one of those guys with Jane Quay. which I know you'll hear the comments earlier this week that he's kind of in shutdown mode like it's a if he's back great if not so be it but Pope did only get one ball handler and that guy got hurt in Jalen Long

and so I think if you were like well maybe in a pinch Aberdeen can get us a game or two well he's having to do a lot more of that this year and you know what to his credit that guy there's a time Billy where he was like what are these shots he's taking leaps and bounds but he is yes he has he has rained it back in they're figuring out, they're figuring out their roles.

They've got a good feel for how to play with one another right now. That's what's going to make the end of this year fun. And I know this is a sport that's defined by postseason success, but we got to enjoy the ride. It's going to be a wild one. There's going to be some more ups and downs. There's going to be another 25 point loss, but you know what? There's probably going to be another crazy one like this.

It's been a crazy year. Yep. Who else we got, Billy? Crystal. Crystal. How we doing? Hello? I'm doing well. How y'all doing? Just fired up, Crystal. So happy you're talking to this.

Us too. I'm so honored you'd take our call. Thank you. So I married into Big Blue Nation. I'm a Western Junior girl. And my husband's a Kentucky fan. And I just, we listen to y'all every day, two hours a day. And we love you and we respect you. And we're thankful you'd take our call. But I predicted we would win this game. And he's like, there's no way. No way. and he, as practical as he is, went through all my rituals. We hung our flag. We got our cross.

We did all the things. And we won. And I'm just so stoked and I'm so excited and just so happy. So, yeah. Well, we're so happy that you got it figured out. You married right. You married it in the right family. You know, and it can be tough too.

Sometimes you get like a split house on. You know. House divided. I married a U. of all cardinal bird so i got to deal with the house divided stuff sometimes crystal it can be tough oh my goodness we're just so happy and i want to say pants off dance off to ryan we are on his side i i want ryan to keep his pants on i wouldn't ryan to keep his pants on thank you crystal i don't do you miss crystal now i'm thinking about ryan with his pants off we don't need that

that image in people's minds like i saw all these videos from mario of ryan celebrating taking a shirt off standing on the bar like always. And then like Mario uploaded another video 40 minutes later, he's still got a shirt off. He's still running around party. And there's a conga line of people with their shirt off. Tarps off for the night. Could be a late one.

We got three more, Nick. Let's do it. Paul is up next. Paul, y'all. What's up, man? How are we doing tonight, fellas? Fired up. I got just a couple things that ended on.

Doug Shows is the most worthless piece of human flesh on the planet the guy shouldn't be calling special olympics dodge ball matches and going back to one thing you mentioned earlier in the show about the Arkansas bench is it just me or does Brad Carrey

Brad Calipari looked like a total Louisville man he does and have a good night he does have a little bit of that Louisville man Geneseecois the Louisville man I mean

would anybody be shocked if there was a little mini bottle of Crown Royal in that inside pocket? Well, you're living in Fayetteville. No. Maybe a little garbage can juice for a son? Garbage can. Oh, that was...

Remember that one? That was a good one. Yeah. Oh, Brad. What a gym. Earned? Not giving. Two more.

Two more, Nick. Let's do it. We've got to finish strong here. Oh, so strong. Hunter is up next. Hey, Hunter. Billy, it's great to talk to you guys. I think we need to have a petition for Nick to

take over fade this with both predictions in back-to-back years. Oh. Who? I mean, he's good with it. Like I say, let him go. Let him cook. Potential. That's the biggest thing that we've heard this entire year is like this team has potential.

We've seen them beat like the bad teams by 3040, which most great teams do. But when it came time to show it in the actual good games, they haven't shown that potential that we know that they have until the last two weeks, until the Tennessee, until today, when we went out and we showed who's boss, I'm loving the Arkansas tears. Doug Schau can eat it. I hope he stubs his toe.

I hope that both sides of his pillows are warm today tonight when he goes to bed. And I'll leave with this a quote from a previous, from a former player who tweeted this when Arkansas won last year, good old Tai Tai Washington walked into the trap took over their trap I'm good night guys taking that dove back to the Lex

shout out Tyrese maxi he did that back in 2020 took that dub back to the Lex Tom had a good line tonight he was talking about Shows and he said Shows spoke on the PA more than the PA announcement oh man

Doug Shows great whipping boy always easy to gang up on him because that guy, he loves to be in the middle of it all. We really lost something when we lost TV Teddy, but Doug Shows, he's picking up to slack. Boy, but I was going through it, though, during those 38 seconds. We all were. Very different post-game shows.

But you know what? Exactly. Now we just get to laugh at him for being bad, not mad at him for causing us a game, because this team showed toughness, his team showed fight, and they showed it against a team that was more talented them. Arkansas is a very talented team,

and the cats control. led the entire way. Hell of a win. Hell of a win. We got one final call. Who's going to wrap us up? Let's make it a good one. Bones.

Oh, Bones. What you got for us? All right. What's up, guys? First of all, I got a couple of real quick things. I want to back up, Matt. And if they want to post it on Twitter, go ahead. Thank you Tyson Chicken for taking cow.

This is the same thing that he's done for the last four or five years here at UK. he's going to get you in the top 15, 25. I predict the first round exit for Arkansas, and then number two, me and my daughter got one last thing to end the show with this. You ready? We ready. C-A-T-S, Cats, Cats, Cats.

Let's go. Go Cats. Thanks, Bones, for calling in. This was a lot of fun. Man, feels good to go. walking their trap, take over their trap, beat them at their own game,

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