KSR - KSR Postgame UK MBB at Auburn 02/17/24

Episode Date: February 18, 2024

Matt and Billy recap the Cats' 70-59 win at Auburn.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Once again on the road, this time 70 to 59 at Auburn. It was a great victory for the Cats. And you can give us a shout. I'll tell you what, Billy, hold it. the end, okay, the first segment. And we're going to take your calls. This is going to be a much more uplifting post-game show than we've had in a while

because that was a thorough beatdown, you know, four times the last four years. I tend to be very optimistic even during difficult times that Kentucky can win because it's more fun that way. But like a lot of fans, I've probably thought a handful of times in the last four years going in a true road game. It was going to be very tough, if not impossible, for them to win. And what's been amazing during this four-year period where we've talked about our various criticisms and frustrations, in those situations, Kentucky has won. And in all four, Tennessee in the COVID year, Tennessee and Arkansas last year, and then Auburn this year, not only has

Kentucky won in all those situations, they've won kind of going away all four times. going on the road and just kind of stomping teams. And tonight was the latest, and I think as important as any of them. Because with this win, I think absent just a complete total collapse, I think the tournament is now assured. They're 18 and 7. This is going to be along with the win against Carolina. A really big resume victory for Kentucky.

Probably takes them up a seven. seed line from maybe six to fifth. You are in a good position now to potentially avoid playing on Thursday in the SEC tournament, depending on what you do next week. So just a lot of real positive things. And as far as the game, I thought it was an awesome performance. And there were basically, for me, four things that sort of stand out. I'll start with the fact that Kentucky got off to a great start.

that was that was exactly what the cats need to do more often but definitely on the road because it just took the crowd out of the game and that's a crowd that's been camping out since their game what Wednesday night they were in there they were loud they had game day people who were at the game were tweeting about what an amazing atmosphere it was before the game and then Kentucky comes out scores, I think, on the first possession. And the crowd never really got a chance to get into the game. I mean, they had moments where they kind of lit up. But in general, what you're worried about, which is if you fall down 10-2 and the crowd's electric the entire time, just didn't happen.

The crowd just didn't have a chance to get excited, which allowed Kentucky to basically control the game from start to finish. and I thought that was, it was impressive in how thorough the victory was and not having that crowd, which can be the best crowd in the SEC when it's rolling, was awesome to keep them out of it. Second thing is I was really, really impressed with the play of Hugo and Adieu. Hugo played 36 minutes tonight. 36 minutes. He played 36 out of 40 minutes. If you had told me that kid would ever play 36 minutes in a game in his time at Kentucky, I wouldn't have believed it.

And to play 36 minutes, not getting foul trouble, be able to control the rim as he did, 11 boards, two blocks, seven points. That's awesome. And the thing that I think a lot of us were worried about sort of getting out muscled at the rim, it just didn't happen. And Ugo was a huge part of that. Not only did he have the blocks, but he altered a lot of shots that I thought really helped. And maybe more than anything made Auburn shoot from outside, where they weren't getting clean looks. They were four for 22 from three, in part because they weren't getting shots at the rim.

And Theero was awesome again. He's becoming a really good defender. He's probably the only guy on the team that I think is, he's not locked down, but it's getting close on guarding on the perimeter. and he really is playing good defense, and then you throw in the fact that he scores 14 points and is able to play 32 minutes when you don't have Trey Mitchell is really huge. So that's the second thing.

Third thing, Antonio Reeves, I mean, if you've been listening to this show over the last two years, but especially this year, he's my favorite player. He's been my favorite player. I think he was probably my favorite player on the team last year, to be honest. I just, there's something about him. I just love. I don't know what it is.

I mean, obviously I love that he can shoot. He's an historically good shooter. But then to watch this year, him make his game so much better to where he can take it to the rim. He's always had a good floater, but he uses it a lot more. And he's been a pretty good defender. And tonight had five rebounds. He had 22 points, but I actually think his impact was even more than that in terms of when he scored them. I counted four times during the game.

when Auburn was about to make a run or was making a run. Cut it to four, cut it to five, maybe cut it to seven, but the crowd was on their feet. And every single time he scored three times with a basket and once getting fouled and completely changed the momentum back. That's clutch. And, you know, we give Bob in Jamestown a hard time for when he called that one post game show after a loss.

I think it was one of the non-conference losses. I can't remember which one it was. But one of the losses, and he said something like, you know, Antonio Reeves doesn't show up in big games. And that was, I thought, nonsense then. Everybody brings that up because of the Kansas State game. But what I am most impressed with him about is what he is able to do on the road. I looked it up.

We've played seven true road games this year. Here are the points that he's had in true road games. 15, 19, 21, 22, 22, 24, and 30. Think about that, Billy. In seven true road games, the fewest amount of points he's had is 15. The most is 30. Now, it was against Louisville. That was barely a road game.

But still, that's amazing. Corey Price put up the stat that in two seasons, he's gone over 20 in a true road game nine times, and no Cal players ever done that. So I actually went further back to look because, you know, a lot of guys don't stay two years under Cal. Since the year, since 2000, Billy, how many guys have scored 20 plus points a game on the road over the course of two seasons nine times? Oh, one, maybe two? Jody Meeks and Keith Bogan's.

And that's it. Tayshan Prince did it eight times. That just doesn't happen. And he does it time and time again. In the worst environments, that kid goes, and the fewest points he's gotten was 15. He was great tonight. And I, I mean, he's an All-American.

He should be an All-American to play the way he does. And on a team where on any given night, Shepard can go off, Dillingham can go. off, Wagner can go off. He is the, I mean, his points per game this year, I think he only has one game where he's not in double figures. It's unbelievable. He's been awesome.

He deserves to be an All-American. And then the last thing, and this is, I do think you got to give John Caliperi a lot of credit for this tonight. Tonight was an old-school Caliperi win. We've talked a lot about him needing to change his style, and he has changed his style. somewhat. They take a lot more threes, all the things we've talked about all year. But this was a win the way Cala Perry used to win and liked to win when he had it, like, consistently rolling here. This was a vintage Cal win. They only made four threes. You tell me

before the game they make four threes, I say they cannot win. They only made four threes. But they one, because of defense, effort, rebounding, controlling the pace, and making the plays when they need to. They ran that stuff that you've heard a lot about, floppy action, they did that, they got to the rim, they drew fouls. Like, Cal, if you were to draw up a,

this is how Cal would like to win, he'd put this game on right here. This is how he likes to win. and I honestly didn't think this team could win like this. I thought this team could play a lot better than they've played most of the year. I thought this team still had a ton of potential, but I really didn't know if they could win a game like this, where they played like Cal's teams of the past did.

I just didn't think they were built like that. But they did. And they did it in the hardest environment that they will play in all season. You know, tournament, Final Four included. That's really impressive. And, you know, if they'd won this game by hitting 11-3s, Dillingham going for 25, I still would have been thrilled and I still think it would have been impressive. But in some ways, I think it's more impressive that they want it this way.

Because I really didn't think they were capable of winning a game like this. And they did. So when you look at March and you say all, you know, we've talked about it, I think they can beat anybody. I also think they can lose to anybody. But I didn't think they could win a game like this. I thought to beat Auburn, it would have to be 8580. But now if you can beat Auburn 70-59, well, now that's a whole other realm of possibilities.

So I think this is a big victory. Now, you got to back it up. You got LSU Wednesday. On the road, you got Alabama at home. win those two and now all of a sudden you can get one of those top four seats in a region

and you might not have to play a really good team like a really good team in the second round win these next two games some of the disappointment of the loss at home to Florida or to Gonzaggart some of that will go away because you can sit there right now you're what 18 and 7

when two more gets 20 and 7 Well, with Vanney and Arkansas at home still to come, you can have a really good record and a record that can get you a seed where maybe a March run is even more probable. So, open on the phones. 859-280-2287. I'm happy about it. I hope you're happy about it.

I watch the game. Well, actually, I'll talk about this in a minute because I want Billy to participate and he's probably got to answer the phone because they're lighten up. So 859-2-80-2287. We will take a break and we'll be right back. This is the local Toyota dealers, KSR, postgame show. Welcome back. It is the local toy dealers, KSR post game show.

I'm sitting here looking at the SEC standings. So Kentucky is in a three-way tie for, I guess, third place with South Carolina, four-way tie, South Carolina, Auburn, and Florida. I guess by the tiebreaker right now, well, South Carolina and Auburn, both are off midweek. So Kentucky and Florida, if Kentucky beats LSU, they'll be tied with South Carolina and Auburn.

Florida, I looked at, Florida has the easiest schedule left. They still play Vandy twice, and I think Arkansas, and you look at their schedule, they got a big win today at Georgia, so Florida's actually going to probably finish

with a better record than you think. But Kentucky, with the win, I think they own the tiebreaker on Florida, I think. And now we own the tiebreaker on Auburn. South Carolina will have the tiebreaker on us. They still have difficult games. So the path to a double buy is there. It really is, especially if you can beat Alabama and LSU.

Alabama and LSU this week are huge games. You know, because I'm going to assume we beat Vandy and Arkansas, and that means at Mississippi State and at Tennessee. And I think you could get to that at Tennessee game if you win these next two to where win or lose, you still have a double buy. I think it's going to be hard to win the SEC. but I'll look at Alabama's. They got two losses.

They play Florida at home Wednesday. Then they come to us. We're going to have to beat them. Then they still go to Florida and go to Ole Miss and host Tennessee. So there are loseable games there. So, you know, Billy, winning the SEC is, I don't want to say likely, but it's not off the table. Well, that's really hard to believe after some of the losses. It's not off the table.

So Tennessee is up one game on us. They go to Missouri, they'll win that. They host A&M, they'll win that. Then they host Auburn, go to Alabama, go to South Carolina. So there's potential losses there. Yeah, I mean, there's a chance if they beat LSU in Alabama that they could go into that Tennessee game playing for the SEC. It's not crazy at all.

there's definitely a path. There's definitely a path depending on how things play. So this was a huge game tonight. I mean, this is massive, especially if they're able to back it up over the next week. By the way, I watched the game, Billy at K.S. Bard.

You know, I don't like to watch games in public. Right. Yeah. Like, I mean, I'll watch games that I think they're going to win in public. But big games, you know, it's hard for me to even stay in the, arena during a big game. Definitely not in a public place.

But all my friends were going to get together. I hadn't seen them as a group in a long time. This was the only time people could do it. So I watched it at the bar. And I enjoy it, Billy, and they won. So do I have to do this? Do I have to do this again?

Yeah, if you're superstitious, maybe you've got to get all those guys together. You know, when? I don't think it's impossible to get that. One of them just had a baby. You like, it's not. Too bad. Oh, you mean I got to tell them, look, sorry, baby. You have to.

You have to be at the thing. Yeah, I'd say so. Well, I'm thinking about Wednesday watching the LSU game. Now, those late night road games, we usually don't get much of a crowd, but, you know, maybe we can, maybe we get the mojo. Would you come out, Bill? Oh, you can't, can you? I got a job to do, but.

Maybe I'll make Ryan and Drew come and sit with me. You know, they had won 16 straight home games there before that loss. Who? LSU? You? Auburn. Oh, yeah. No one would have been within 10 of them this year.

That's insane. And then they didn't stay within 10 of us. So it's a huge win, man. That is a huge win. All right. Let's get started. Who's up first? Edward.

Edward. Go ahead, Ed. Matt, how are you? Good. Okay, so listen, I'm in the mountains of Galenburg. I'm in a hot tub with seven of my boys. Wait, man. Hang on.

Hang on. Stop right there. Stop right there. There's just eight guys. Just eight bros just hanging in the hot tub, just eight of you. No women at all? You're darned-tudent, brother. It's guys weekend.

All right, good deal. All right, there you go. Eight guys in a hot tub. What's the, all right, what do you got? Yeah, so we watched the game. We got a bunch of guys here, and we were listening. We were watching. It was a great game.

I love the ball pressure right out of the gate, and we didn't come out flat. I loved what we saw. I love the hustle. Even Justin Edwards having four points. His defense was great. I thought his defense. was really good, by the way, especially in the first half. He obviously was in foul trouble in the second half. But I thought in the first half he played really good defense. Yeah.

Absolutely. So, I mean, the stats sheet didn't show it, but I love what we saw. My brother was in attendance with his wife. So all around great stuff. This isn't a shot at you, but for the toxic people out there, I hope the praise for this team and our coaching staff is just as loud as the criticism. So have a blessed night. Love you, brother. I love the show. Thank you, sir. Well, I mean, listen, it should be. If you're going to be critical, which I have been, I hope. I don't think I've been toxic, but I've been critical. You got to praise him when they do well. And he thoroughly outcoached Bruce Pearl tonight.

And Bruce Pearl was rattled. I mean, he was doing the thing we criticized Cal for earlier in the year. He was shuttling people in and out, wouldn't stay with the lineup, losing it at the refs. So, yeah, you definitely have to give him credit. Eight guys in a hot tub, Billy. What do you think about that? It's just boys being boys, Matt. Nothing wrong with that.

That's what they do. You know, when we were in Greensboro last year for the NCAA tournament. the four you are not there obviously because you're not allowed to go because you're not allowed to leave the city limits uh the four of us were in a hot tub one night and it was just the four of us and we were like hey this is just four guys in a hot tub it happens but eight it's got better be a big hot tub don't you think a little crowded with eight getting close to double digits eight in a hot tub in galenberg you better you bet you all better like each other for that i mean you got that you got to love your friends all right who's next Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. Hey, how are you guys doing tonight? I was kind of curious about Coach Cowell's jacket tonight. You know, I didn't notice it.

I didn't know. Somebody texted me about it, and I guess I didn't really pay attention. What was it? I couldn't tell if it was Texas A&M or Tennessee, but it was it was checkered, and that man's wearing a dark colored suit as long as I've been watching UK games and I didn't know if that was I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna look at here on the social media and let me see if I can see it because I in my mind I didn't notice it one way or the other uh so let's see calipary jacket did anybody take a picture of it there is at least one no I don't see anything I'm looking at

one right now I'll send it where are you seeing it it's a KSR post of course I should look that'd be a good place to start You're not always look at Kentucky. Are you texting me? I did. I just texted it to you. Well, it will come, and I will look. Okay, there it is.

Let's see. Yeah, I like that jacket. You're right, though. He doesn't usually wear a jacket that color. I think that's interesting, though. That was your biggest takeaway on the game? Was his jacket? Well, no, no.

I mean, I love UK. We bleed blue, but we had three losses at home in a row, and I didn't know if that was his way of flexing, saying something since. Maybe he was just taking, like, changing the month? mojo, right? Like me watching the game in public. He's one of the best dressed man coaches in basketball, and I've never seen him wearing a jacket

like that, and I didn't know if there was something behind it. Yeah, I don't know. Not that I know, but I appreciate the call. Maybe somebody, maybe he said something about it. I don't know. I like that. First two calls. Eight dudes in a hot tub and Cala Perry's jacket.

I like it. That's why I like this fan base. You never know. You never know what's going to happen. And that's what I love. Who's next? Zach. Zach, what's up, Zach?

Hey, Matt. Hey, I just got to say, we're so back. It's not how many times you get knocked down. It's how many times you get back up again. And, man, we got back up tonight. And in the past few years, past few games this season, it feels like we're slowly getting back. But we shot right back up.

And, man, the Calipari suit, it's checkerboard. The checkerboard. The checkerboard always finds its way back in for the cats. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just super excited. We got back up. We're so freaking back. I'm so excited.

It's a great season. Let's go for nine. I'm with you. Listen, when they're playing well, when they're playing well, they can meet anybody. And that's one thing that is different, I think, about this group in the last two years. years. You know, two years ago when they lost to St. Peter's, I thought that team was really good. I didn't think they could win a title. I did not think they were going to lose to St. Peter's. Last year, you know, I thought we might win a game more than we did, but I didn't think this was a title.

This team could, this team's good enough to beat anybody. Now, is it, you know, is it good enough to win six straight playing consistently? We'll see. But this was a good step. I just didn't. I just didn't think this team could win a 70-59 game against a good offensive team. And they did. So what is happening right now? Is it Sabrina versus Steph? Is that happening right now? Apparently, yeah. I think I have the wrong NBA TV on, so I can't watch it. Are you watching like an old NBA game? I'm watching like the NBA channel and it's just giving me player interviews. I'm not watching anything on the course. Because it's on TNT. Oh, well, that's the problem. been watching the wrong channel for an hour.

You're like, it's like you've been watching the Super Bowl for like three years ago or so. Yeah. So Sabrina got 26 and Steph got 29. But still, like, that's an awesome performance by Sabrina because she set, she shot from the men's line, didn't she? Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. She shot, I mean, she used the women's ball, but she shot from the men's line. So that's a great performance by her.

I think it's very cool that they did that. Trey Mitchell also had a good performance from the bench today. Oh, I loved it. I loved the shooting the thing and the too low, the two little. The too little. I liked that the too little was at a perfect time, too. That was a great. By the way, how high did it do get on that lob?

Oh, the left-handed. Oh, yeah, that was good. That law, like he was way up, way up. Jacob Toppins about to be in this dunk contest. It needs to be tough for him to win because people don't know who he is, but I hope he has a good, good showing. Who's next? Cam.

Cam, what's up, Cam? What's going on, guys? I'm part of me if I'm talking low. I'm over here rocking my infant to sleep. All right. So we've had, here we go, Billy, eight dudes in a hot tub. We've had Cal Jacket, and now we got rocking an infant to sleep. Let's go, Cam.

Hey, 10 o'clock on a Saturday. That's right. First of all, hey, I'm with you, Matt. I've been critical of Cal the last four. or five years, but I definitely got to praise them when they come through with the clutch situations, man. So kudos to him for getting them boys ready to play tonight. I was worried. I placed a little parlay for them to get beat pretty bad, man. So they proved me wrong. I was excited about that. And how about I do, man? I think he was the X factor tonight.

He's his intensity. He was great. Yes. Absolutely. His intensity, I believe. the team fed off of his intensity. If he can finish those contested layups and continually get those dunks like he does, I think the team feeds off his energy. Nobody else really does that. Justin Edwards tries to, but he gets stripped. He does. He tries to finish.

Well, there are times, and I appreciate the call, there are times where there are offensive possessions where, you know, for whatever reason, you're not able to get anything. And what I like is, okay, so DJ. can still usually take his man, but he's just still not great at finishing. Reeves is getting better at finishing, but he missed a handful today. But a dude can do it and draws a foul. He doesn't always finish, but he draws a foul. And I really, I like, I think there's a lot of value in that.

And you're exactly right. He's so tough. He's so tough. I give that dude a ton of credit. I mean, he, he, you know, when Cal recruited him, nobody. knew who he was and he's been awesome he's been really really awesome i hope he'd be an awesome dude to bring back next year to be like the stabilizing veteran force on the team next season i think he would be that would be uh that would be excellent all right who's next charlie

charlie go ahead charlie yeah man that was a great win very exciting and i'm uh i'm excited about our new oc i know uh ryan grew up in the 80s i'm my friends excited everybody loves a good book You know, just leave the comedy on the way. Like I say, Billy, if you're going to tell jokes, you've got to make sure they're good. You think he had something there? Well, it's like, I mean, everybody has thought that since they got hired. Like, there's been some form of that joke in people's mind. You know, you just got to.

Do you like this court they got on the NBA thing right now? Well, now that on the right channel, I'm seeing it for the first time. It's quite impressive. It's quite impressive. I wonder what, I mean, is that what it looks like there? Yes, it is. Yeah. That's kind of amazing.

I mean, it's got to be distracting. I mean, I'm watching a Twitter video on the court right now right before this guy's about to shoot. That's really crazy. How about Jaime Hockaz being in the dunk contest? Who would have ever seen that when he was at USC Life? All right, who's next? Let's go to Bill. Bill, go ahead, Bill.

Hey, how we doing, folks? Doing good. Man, you know, what do you say? Cal Perry come out and he taught these guys how to defend this evening. He did a damn good job. They did a great job. I mean, that's not just a good, like, that's a team where it's not just that they defended. That's a good offensive team.

I mean, they were top 20 Kim Pomm in offense. Like, that's not just some team. The 29 points in a first half. Well done, sir. But a good offensive team. I mean, not just a random one, a good one. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I was one that called you and had a problem, you know, because I'm a Kentucky fan through and through.

And Cald Perry, you know, he's a good recruiter. But tonight he showed me he could coach. Come on, man. I appreciate the call. You can't say you've never thought he could coach until now. I mean, he's won a lot of big games. As much criticism as I've had over him, the idea that he can't coach has never been a fair criticism of him, ever.

You don't win as much as he does without being able to coach. You can nitpick with how he coaches sometimes, but I don't think, I mean, like he's always been able to coach. Did you think that Hockaz dunk was impressive, Billy, or no? I didn't see it honestly I was working too hard over here sorry I got a lot I'm not to work to call's to answer things to do that's okay he jumped over Shaq but Shaq bent his head and it was

you know it was wasn't impressive but it wasn't crazy but go ahead Nick is next Nick go ahead Nick Matt first time caller long time listening Who are what's up? I just it's hard for me to after the third home loss, I kind of wanted to give up on them. But this is something about this team. It's hard for me to give up on them. And tonight, when they came out, they actually got a good start,

which was surprising to see him come out and actually go after it like they did. I'm just impressed with Reed's hands, too. That guy is just unreal with how quick his hands are. Let me ask you a question when you say, though, and by the way, I'm not criticizing this because a lot of people will say something like this. When you say give up, though, and I'm just going to guess this about you because I don't know you, but my guess is you don't really like, like you don't mean that. Like when we were in the COVID year and we were 9 and 16, my guess is you probably still watched every game, didn't you?

Yeah, when I give up, it's just hard to loss after loss like that. It's just hard you. No, it is, but I think a lot of fans talk about giving up, but we still watch. You know, we're still going to be into it because it's our thing, in my opinion. But, you know, so I appreciate the call. Jacob Toppin just did his dunk, jumped over his brother, took the ball from him and did a reverse slam. That was actually pretty awesome, and it doesn't feel like the crowd appreciated it. No, that was good.

I think that'll get him to the next round. I thought that was really good. Let's see what they gave him. Okay. Yeah, so they gave him a better one than they did the other guy. They should have. That was really good. Well, it's harder to jump over the guy and make a reverse.

As long as Jay Williams isn't judging this contest, we'll be good. I thought he was really good. All right, well, we'll see what the other dudes do. Let's do one more and we'll take a break. Who's next? How about Xerxes? Zerxes, what's up? Hey, Matt, I got a few things.

First of all, I'm going to say our record is now officially two and O since the players call that player's only meeting and focus and solely on defense. They'd already had one player's only meeting Xerxes. How many do they get before we say when we get to start over? This was their second one. Well, since they focused on defense. Okay.

I mean, since the focus has been on defense with two and oh, I love the effort, but my man, Rob Dillingham, cannot play a defense to save his life. He's too handsy. He swings his arms way too much. He's too aggressive. And I think Tyler Eulis needs to get with him and steady this guy and just show him how to play man-to-man defense because he picks up way too many unnecessary files, way too many. Pleased with an effort from Justin Edwards, Hugo, defense from Reed, even though he didn't have a great offensive game for a great win in the jungle.

I made out like a band today in my vets amongst my friends. wife and I over here drinking champagne what a night and eight guys a hot tub and that's what you know what though like if they're happy you know what it's just eight it's eight bros in a hot tub it happens that's uh you know I appreciate to call I'm certain Billy someone's going to have a Photoshop I haven't seen look to see if there is but that's happening don't you think somebody's going to do an eight guys in a hot tub Photoshop. Oh, we've already gotten a couple

tweets about it, but yes, the Photoshop I'm sure is coming. Yeah, I'm going to see. I'm trying to think who somebody's doing it. I know, and I'm interested to see what the, uh, what it'll end up. I actually

yeah, see, Toppins was a lot better than Jaylenburg. That better not be better than that. That's not better than Toppins. That Toppins was better than that. 8.59-2-80 2287. We will take a break and be right back.

It's the local toy dealers, KSR post game show. Welcome back, it is the local toy dealers, KSR post game show. This dunk contest is rigged. Matt McClung's dunk was amazing. And that Jalen Brown got the best score and had the worst dunk. Come on, man. Jacob Toppins not going to win, and it's ridiculous. But even, like, Jaylin, come on.

All right, I'm done talking about. It's not over. One more dunk left, right? I'm just saying, like, who is this old dude? I mean, I'm sure he's good, but who's the old guy giving MacKamac of 46 when he threw the ball up and he? Stop. All right. A lot of you aren't even watching it, and you're probably just thinking I'm renting.

So we'll go back to the game. 859-280-2287. Only, I had somebody send me a thing that said only 100 UK fans or so were in the building. So that really is a hard environment. I mean, that's a tough, tough ticket to get. So I'm impressed they had anybody there, to be honest with you, because that's, that was, I think, get-in price was like $450 in game time. So, all right, who's up next? Ryan is next.

Ryan, go ahead, Ryan. Hey, Ryan. I have Matt, not bad, my bad. I just wanted this first time long time I've called into the show, but I just want to say that I'm probably one of the select few fans. I guess you could say there. There's probably something out there, or I can't say that. but it's not been so crucial about this team because, you know, this is probably that I could remember, but I could be wrong.

I'm only 34 years old that Cal is like this is the best shooting team that we've had. I mean, we've got some shooters on this team that. I mean, these boys can shoot that pigskin, you know, and I'm not, I ain't ever give up on them. And I don't, you know, when I listen in and people like, hey, you know, this team ain't no good. We can't play them. I'm like, boys, just calm down. Just give it a minute. We can play the ball, you know.

I just wanted to say that, you know, even though we won, if we were to lost that game against Vandy, you know, you would have got some callers saying we should get rid of Cal, cow, cow should be out of here, you know what I mean, like, just calm down. I just calm down. But if we, to be fair, though, to be fair. And I have not said he should be gone, and I don't believe that. No, I see what happens at you. But to be fair, though, had they lost to Vandy, people should be critical.

Like, we got to stop. We got to stop acting like everything is feast or famine. I mean, like, if they lose to Vandy, they deserve criticism. But if they, we didn't lose to Vandy. But if we had lost to Vandy, that is a terrible loss. Right. If, however, winning at Auburn is a great win. But those things are not mutually exclusive.

No, no, no, because now this win tonight, this is an excellent man. I'm not dogging the win, and I'm not dogging that win that we had the other night. I'm just saying, you know, these boys aren't machines. You know what I mean? These boys aren't machines. They just go out and they're supposed to say they're supposed to listen to the coach. But now, you know, some of these boys ain't going out there and listen to the coach. They just go out there and play.

And, you know, everybody gets up in the moment. But stop. But you're making me do something I don't want to do, which is be at all negative. This is positive. But you cannot take the view. Hang on just a second. I'm trying to be positive. Hang on.

Hang on. You cannot take the view. that when they play good, it's Cal's him. And when they play bad, it's on the players. It's both, both times. It's both both times. I agree. I agree with that.

I do agree. I do agree with that. But I never, what I'm saying is like, you know, a lot of fans, you know, we've got the best fans in the world. Some of these people that come in, you know, call in, they're like, you know, cow, these cows can't coach and these players can't shoot the ball. And it's like, you know, we have bad night. Hey, look, I say that with where we're at right now, you know, we, like you said, we can lose against anybody. We can beat anybody.

All we have to do is when it comes down, make that tournament, and get on a good run. That's all it matters, man. I appreciate the call. I agree. I got you. I got you. My man gets going and he just gets revved up and it's rolling. They have completely screwed Jacob Topping in this thing.

That was another. awesome dunk, Billy. It looked effortless, honestly. That's the problem. I mean, those were both great dunks, and they're not going to move him on, and that's nonsense. Anyway, all right,

go ahead. Who's next? Speaking of nonsense, Bob and Jamestown is next. Hello, Bob. Matt, Antonio Reeves, once again, since he laid down on North Carolina, who's next? Who's next? Wait a minute. Who's next?

Who's next? I'm not listening to you say he laid down against North Carolina. He had a bad game. People have bad games. That doesn't mean they lay down. I'm not listening to that, Bob. I'm sorry. Oh, my goodness. That dunk was amazing. I'm not listening to that. Like, that's nonsense. He can have a bad game. But this dude, and I know you were going to praise him, but I'm still cutting you off for saying he laid down. I almost sound like Cal. These dudes are not machines. They get to have a bad game. And he has been more consistently good on the road than any player. And guess what? We beat Carolina.

So it wasn't that bad. But I just, you got us, the narrative about Reeves, like not showing, I mean, that's that. Jody Meeks and Keith Bogan's two legends. are the only dudes ever since 2000 that have had more road games or 20 or more points. Like, I'm the meme. I'm sorry to get a quick trigger, Bob, but you've got to stop that. Who's next? Let's go to Zach.

Zach, what's up, Zach? Hey, Matt, a good road win for us. Two things for you. the goal tending call that Ugo had early in the first half, why do they wait until the TV timeout? Why do you not do it? It's terrible rule. I mean, the reason they do it at the TV timeout is to not stop play. But it's a terrible rule.

It's gone against us twice. It went against Auburn tonight. It's a terrible rule because it doesn't, you know, you don't give the team a chance that would have gotten the rebound. and it hurt Auburn tonight, it hurt us twice this year. That rule's got to be changed. If you think goal tending is important enough to review, then they got to do it immediately.

If you don't, then don't. But it's a terrible rule, and we've now seen it play out in three Kentucky games this year. Oh, yeah, I agree, because they reviewed it like three minutes later. And then take the points off, but it hurts Auburn there because what if Auburn had gotten the ball, right? I don't know if they were going to or not. But in the two games where we got it, we got the rebound and then we're unable to score because of the rule.

Correct, correct. And the other thing, I wish college basketball could have like a challenge flag or something to that foul that Reed had on that three where the Auburn player kicked his leg out. That was kind of bad. And Cal was yelling at him to review it. I kind of wish you could have a challenge flag. I feel like we review. I feel like we review too much as it is. I really do. You know what I mean? I feel like I'm okay with reviewing in the last two or three minutes,

but once we start like just adding more and more stuff to review, the game just takes forever. I mean, you got to get the calls right at the end of the game in the last two minutes. But I do think that was a bad call on the read thing, but I really wish they wouldn't review it, to be honest. You know what I mean? Yeah, I understand. It's just when it's like that blatant, when they show it in slow motion, it's kind of like, man, I wish you could. review that. But I get what you're saying. It'd take forever to review everything.

It'd take forever if you review every, you know, questionable call. So I appreciate the call. Yeah. Jalen Brown, they're going to see, they move him on like that. It's rigged. It's rigged. It's a popularity contest, man. It's a popularity contest.

There's no way that Jalen Brown should have moved on over Jacob Topper. Zero. All right. Who's next? Dalton is next Dalton go ahead hey Matt how are you doing good

I just got to say how about a Duttiaro absolutely baptizing that kid from Auburn and then I got to say Bruce P. Pearl is absolutely he was out there looking like a PE teacher

tonight uh what was why did he wear that by the way I don't know I couldn't hear the sound. I didn't know if, I mean, it might have been to raise money or something, so I'm not like, I'm not, you know, I'm not sure. Yeah, so I'm not sure, but it was weird when he was wearing

a t-shirt. Yeah, that was, that was weird. So, yeah, but, you know, it was nice to see him angry and to see us, I, I don't dislike Bruce Pearl, but I do like seeing Bruce Pearl upset. You know what I mean? Yeah, that, that makes my day when I watch an Auburn game and he gets upset. Yes, I'm, I'm, uh, I'm with you. I appreciate the call. 859-2-80-22. I cannot believe. I know you're not paying attention, Billy,

but Jacob Topping got completely jobbed by these. They got some old guy out there who has he even, I mean, no offense to him, man, but like he won the 77 dunk contest. What was that like in a peach basket? You know, what's happening here, Billy? Now, Matthew, you got to respect your elders. I respect them, but not if they're going to judge like that. Who's next?

Pam. Pam. Go ahead. Oh, hey, Matt. Thanks for taking my call. Number one, Bob and Jamestown, I love you, but no one on this team lays down ever, period. I don't think they do either. I don't think at any point this year have I felt like effort wasn't the issue.

Now, sometimes I do think they, you know, there were some hustle plays that don't get made. But I have never felt like these dudes have laid down. I actually think one of their strengths is they don't. give up they play hard so i just i don't buy that i'm with you exactly um i am a lifelong uk fan i started watching games when i was a little girl with my dad and i have been going through some tough medical stuff lately i've been off work since january 2nd and just dealing with some really serious medical stuff and like watching these games is one thing i look forward to that brings me joy and these three home losses did not bring me joy but to not

I was joyful and I was so happy about it. So happy. It just brought, oh, and listening to you guys every day on KSR makes me laugh and brings me joy as well. Well, let's ask you. First of all, let me, that I understand what you mean. Like when you go through difficult times, like games can make you happy.

I don't know what you're going through and you don't have to tell me, but God bless you. And I'll be praying for you and keep your head up. And, you know, hopefully we keep winning to keep bringing you that joy. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate that. But I did have two questions for you guys, if you don't mind. One, I wanted to know, like, you're and Billy's thoughts on how do you think our defense has improved so much so quickly? First of all, do you really want to know Billy's thoughts? Do I have to ask Billy as well? You don't have to. You don't have to. You specifically ask Pam,

so I'll get Billy's thoughts too, but go ahead. Okay. And the second one is like there was those two incidents during the game where the Auburn players were injured or whatever on the opposite side of the court, but yet they stopped play. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that's now happened in two games with us, and I don't know. I appreciate the call. I mean, again, I hope things go better. I don't know the rule. Now, the guy got hurt, so I'm not, and it looks like it was a serious injury, so I'm not going to, like, spend a lot of time on worrying about it because he was clearly really hurt. But I don't understand the rule because, you know, either you stop it or you don't, right? Like, I don't know how, I mean, I think the rule is supposed to be you stop it if

they're really hurt. That kid tonight was really hurt, so I'm not going to be like, that one tonight didn't bother me as much. But I think the last time it happened, the dude just ended up getting back up and being fine. And so I just, I don't really know how, I don't really know exactly what that rule is supposed to be. But I hope that kid is okay, Jalen Williams, because he's good and an Auburn's going to have a hard time if they don't have it. Let's do one more and we'll take a breath. Don't you want my defensive analysis before we move on? I should have let you talk.

Go ahead. You do the defensive part. Well, you know, I don't know. But maybe one thing that's helped is that they've tightened the rotation a little bit. You know, Aaron Bratch, you only got three minutes. Big Z had 30 seconds, I think. And when you know who's going to be out there and the responsibilities they have, I'm sure that helps. Yeah.

No, I think a couple of things I think have gotten a little better. A doo's become very good defensively. I think Wagner's gotten better. Reeves is better. I mean, Dillingham's the weak link defensively. And I think that's why his minutes are going to have gone down, that in foul trouble. And so he's going to have to, I mean, we need him offensively, but he's kind of been a weak link. I thought Hugo, they didn't put Hugo in pick and roll a lot tonight, which I don't understand why,

because he showed, he played it a little better on a couple early plays, but who goes, Hugo being a rim protector, I think helps. You know, they exploited it to death. Gonzaga did on the pick and roll, but I don't feel like Auburn was really able to do that. So, all right, one more. Who's next? Alex is next. Alex, go ahead, Alex.

Hey, Matt. First time, long time. Who are? So I got two questions. So I think tonight, I mean, we didn't get to see Trey Mitchell, obviously. And so it seemed like the lineup was a bit smaller. Do you think that, you know, we'll see a smaller lineup in the future? I mean, seeing a lot more minutes from a do.

And then the second question is, did you get a lot of a little bit? a chance to watch Kaysen Wallace and Sheebley play in the Rising Star I saw a minute of it I didn't see a lot of it I saw a minute of it um I would say to answer your question it's a game by game

thing so like against Gonzaga and I appreciate the call against Gonzaga it would have been nice to have Trey Mitchell um and so I think not having him is uh is was unfortunate tonight

it might have been better to have a do so I think it's I think it's I think both those guys are very valuable. I hope we get Trey back. But, listen, Hugo playing like he did tonight is a difference baker. Very cool, by the way, of Jalen Brown. He put on Terrence Clark's high school jersey, and they put a face of him on the floor.

That's very cool. Good, because rest in peace, Terrence Clark. That's very cool with Jalen Brown to do. We will take a break and come back. Final segment, 859-280-2-87. This is the local Toyota dealers, KSR Post-Gam Show. I don't know who this darnel Hillman is, but they can't invite him back, Billy.

I mean, I respect my elders. But this dude grades like, I don't know, like he's at Yale or something. He seems like a little bit of a hater. I mean, what a hater. Darnel. Come on. 859-280-2287. Why?

Jail Brown just put on Michael Jackson. and glove. Come on. This is why a superstar shouldn't be on here, though, because everybody wants him to lose. Matt McClug should win. He's not even in the NBA, is he? I don't think so. I think he's in the G League. What are we doing?

You know, he's from, he's from right there next to Middlesbrough. Did you know that? No, I didn't know that. He's from Gate City, Virginia, where we went there. We went through there last year. Remember, we stopped an eight in his hometown, me and Ryan, and them on the way to Greensboro? Who could forget?

I mean, clearly you could. I wasn't there, but you got, well, they don't let you go. You got six, six calls on? I do.

I have six calls on. All right, we'll do those six. And assuming the last one is good, then we will, we'll finish up. Who's next? Spencer.

Spencer, how are you doing, Spencer? First time, long time, Matt. Who, what's up? Not much. I was just wondering with the difference, what, different ways we've won this year.

and, you know, starting out the year, it seemed like we just going to outscore everybody and, you know, put up 95 and win. And now having a defensive win like tonight on the road, what do you think matchup-wise in the tournament is a nightmare for us? Do we want to get in a shootout? Well, I mean, I wouldn't. First of all, I didn't think we could win games where we scored 70 against somebody good, right? So that's a good, that's a good thing to see because I thought, you know, the best Cal teams could win that way.

I just didn't think this team had the defensive ability to win that way. So now I think that's good. I would not, I think the best team in the country right now is Yukon. I mean, they just pounded Marquette at home. So they're the ones I want to avoid the most. I guess what I would say is, I don't, if you're, just talking about who I think the best teams are. Marquette's the best team, or excuse me,

Yukon's the best team. I think probably Carolina, to me, is next. I know they've lost some games, but I still think they are explosive. And then, you know, Kansas is Kansas. They always seem to play well in March. The team that I think, the team that I think gives us the matchup that I like the least is Houston,

just because I think they're so physical and their defense is good. And I worry that, like, what happened to us against Gonzaga and A&M and South Carolina might happen in that game. So the team I want to avoid the most is Yukon, but to answer your question, probably second would be Houston. Yeah. Well, I was just wondering, like, we think the best version of ourselves is the outscoring people or the – I think the best version – well, no, I mean, the best version is if you could play like we did tonight over and over, I'll take that because, you know, I think we'll beat, you play like you do tonight, we'll beat most teams.

I still think, though, the way we'll have to win a title is we'll have to win a game like we did tonight, and then we're going to have to beat somebody 90 to 86, right? Right. And I think we, I'm not worried about the 90 to 86, but I was worried about how this would go, and it went great. Stop it, Matt McClum, appreciate the call. He is the winner. Billy, if they don't give this to this dude, then it's rigged.

I'm with you. That was pretty awesome. That was awesome. Better than Jalen Brown's glove. I mean, he, and also the dude's like your height. He even has your hair when I first met you. That's what your hair looked like when I met. His head almost hit the rim.

All right. Who's next? Heather. Heather. Heather, go ahead, Heather. Well, first of all, prayers for Pam. And second, I have. I have to tell a little story about my nanny.

She's 93. She watches every game. And every time before the game, she will call and ask who we're playing. So when she called tonight and I told her Auburn, I said, Now, Nanny, this is a tough place to play. So I can't guarantee you when. And she said, well, I'll just pray. real hard for them and you'll see we'll win. And so I just would like to thank the Lord and Nanny

for assistance on his win. Well, the Lord and Nanny is happy with the win. And Heather, it's always good to hear from you. Yes. And I just, I loved Hugo and Adieu tonight. There's just such a difference in both of those this year that I really think that they was the X factors. Oh, I do too. I agree with that. I completely, completely agree with you. Appreciate the call. The text machine is 772-774-554.

By the way, my mom texted him to say she was not watching the dog contest, which doesn't surprise me, Billy, since she didn't watch the Super Bowl. That's still hard to believe. I mean, not many other things on. I would have been more surprised if my mom after skipping the Super Bowl had watched the dunk contest. Because I bet there aren't too many people that would have chosen that one, too. So I love you, Mom, but I assumed you probably weren't watching the dunk contest. Four more. Who's next? Laura.

Laura, go ahead, Laura. Hey, Matt. First time call her a long-time listener. I see you guys. Oh, I love seeing our cats in the NBA. you know, number nine is the most important, but I sure do appreciate seeing all the cats and the All-Star game. But I got two things for you. Both defensive, you know, I thought Reed Shepard actually played some pretty good three-point defense tonight and leave his feet.

I don't, I think maybe just one time. He didn't go for the ball fakes and he didn't hedge as much as he normally does. He did. He was probably more solid. No, not probably. He was more solid on defense than he's. been in some of the last few games. I think that's true. And he got a couple steals, I think, in the first half. Yeah, he did, he didn't, he's improving,

which is, which is great. And then the second thing is DJ Wagner on the high ball screen. I mean, he, he's what we need. He's got it down. I don't think Dillingham or Reed Shepard there quite yet, but I watched, read or I watched Wagner all night and he, he fought through that high ball screen, he communicated. I'm not exactly happy with him on offensive in, he dribbles too much, and I think he's like so much ISO, but on the defensive end, I mean, you can just tell we need him, so we're a better team when he's back. Totally agree with you. Appreciate the, appreciate the call. Let me give you another stat that John Scott, the Big Blue History guy. You know, in their careers, Bill, you know how many players

in their career have had more away games, excuse, me more away game scoring 20 plus points in two seasons than Antonio Rees. Would you like to know the answer? Yes. How many? Wait a minute. Hang on. I got the wrong thing there.

Sorry. Most did, okay. So let me put a different way. The Kevin Grevy holds a record for most away games with 20 or more points. He had 20. Dan Issel had 19. Next is Mike Casey. Then Givens Walk.

Kenny Walker, Riley, Mashburn Andrews, Cotton Ash, Joe Crawford. All those dudes played at Kentucky for at least three years, right? Then Spivey Hagan, Derek Miller, Johnny Cox, Bogans, Turpin, Parker Delk, all those guys played at least three years. Groza, Davinder, Meeks, Pratt. So Reeves is on this list, and he's the only dude who played less than three years on the list.

Wow. I mean, he's grown up before our eyes, man. He was just a transfer from Illinois State. Yes. I just think I don't know that we as fans, and I know the national media is not. I don't know that people appreciate how well he's played because he's not, like, flashy, and he's on a team with dudes like Dilling, Emmyn Shepherd, that are kind of flashy. And, you know, we had Oscar Sheeweigh two years ago win national player of the year.

I just don't think we're appreciating the way that dude scores. It's just not normal. You think he's an NBA player? Yes, now, I mean, for sure. I think he's going to be underpicked, to be honest with you. He'll probably go in the second round, and I think the dude is a late first round pick. You know, he's older, so, like, they won't pick him in the first 15 because he's older.

And, you know, they like to pick potential. But, like, take a guy like Jaime Hockaz right now, he went at the end of the first round, I think, and then it's probably the fourth best rookie this year. I don't know that Reeves is necessarily like him, but I think Reeves has a chance to be a good NBA player. So, yeah, he's amazed me, and I've always been his fan.

I was advocating for him to play from early last year, but I never thought he'd be like this. The difference is he can get to the rim now, which is something he couldn't do last year, at least not consistently. Who's next? Cecil. Cecil, go ahead. First of all, I want to send good vibes to the young lady that called earlier with the medical issues.

Most of everybody is giving praise to Hugo and Theero and much deserved. but the lady said the previous lady just now, she gave great analysis. And I want to piggyback on, man, it was great. Wagner and Reed, they played good defense today. And I think that's, Wagner's always played good defense, but he's been out for so long,

so we kind of forgot all about it. But man, that's what we need is his point guard skills and defense. and Reed finally stepped up on the man-to-man defense. He's great as a team defender, but today he actually stood, stood his ground, did not let his guy beat him off the dribble. We need this read. Hopefully we'll get more scoring for me like most games,

but the defense we got from Wagner and Reed today is crucial for our martial, March Madness from. I'm with you. I totally agree with that. See, so you and I have bickered a little bit this year, but I think everything you just said is exactly right. I appreciate you call. Oh, I hung up on them.

Yeah. Well, that's okay. So the winners tonight, Damon Lillard, won the three-point contest. Mac McClung won the Duck contest. See, Mom, you didn't have to watch it. And Steph Curry beat Sabrina. How do I say her last name?

In Yonskoo? Didn't you talk about her on ESPN the other day? I just call her Sabrina. Oh, you just went Sabrina? I don't know how to say her last name. She's got cool shoes. I'm going to get one of her pairs of shoes. Her shoe is really good.

Two more. Who's next? Mitch. Mitch, what's up, Mitch? Well, Matt, wonderful win. But something earlier today happened. One of my four children decided they're going to cheer for Auburn. And they don't get to go to Dairy Queen.

Because they're a weiner and they're sitting at the dinner table. until this calls over because I'm shaming him on the radio. Oh, my God. Well, I'm not going to say his name, but he did it, and he doesn't get to go to Dairy Queen. Wow. He doesn't. And you, wait, so you're making the kids sit at the table right now and take it?

He's taking it, Matt, because guess what? I was born in Kentucky. He may have been born here in Washington State. That's okay. He can be a Washington fan, but he was like, nope, Auburn's going to win today. I will stop the car. and just said, I don't know.

I like it. Listen, kids have to be punished, right? They have to be punished if they don't, if they don't act right. So I'm with it. I appreciate the call. A rule is not a rule without a punishment. That's the one. Now, Matt, I have a quick question I want you to ask next week someday.

Okay. Who are the eight? Who are the seven, sorry, seven UK athletes, mail only for Ryan, that you'd get in a hot tub with? That's a question you should ask. I appreciate the call. I don't know. I don't know the answer to that question. I would probably say it would have nothing to do with being in a hot tub.

The question would be, what are the seven former Kentucky athletes that I would love to sit and talk to the most? And I'll assume we're talking in a hot tub. So if I'm saying living that I'm going to, assume in order for me to say this, I'm not going to pick like people from the past that I would like to meet. I'm just going to say my seven favorite personalities, since I've been doing this that I've gotten to know, I would go, Ramele Bradley, Wukosh, Jared Lorenzen, Mike Pratt. Let me think, because I want to make sure I have the right ones.

I'm going to surprise you here, Billy, because I really liked this guy a lot when he was here. E.J. Florial. I really liked him a lot. Richie, Farmer. Who's going to be my seventh? And DeMarcus. Oh, that's a good one to end it. DeMarcus.

That's going to be my seven. I mean, he's pushing you under in the hot tub. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to go. I think that's my for seven. Ramel, Wu, Jared, Mike Pratt, E.J. Floriel, DeMarcus, and Richie. I think we would have fun.

Me and those seven, Billy in the hot tub in Gatlinburg, just like boys do. I can see it now. By the way, if you didn't hear the first call, that seems really strange, what I just said. One more, and we'll finish. Who's next? Speaking of hot tubs, this is the brother of the guy who was in the hot tub. Oh, it's the guy that was at the game. Perfect way to end.

What did you think about your brother's call? Hey, Matt. It was so good to hear it. You're going to start the night with his call. You're going to end the night with his brother's call. Perfect. What a great way to do it. I completely believe that he'd be in the hot tub with on guys weekend with the eight dudes.

But hopefully we can close this out well. Go for it. How was it there? It was excellent. This is my second Auburn, Kentucky game. great crowd you know every time they you know try to get back into it i think the crowd wanted them to be there wanted them to get back in it and you know there was response uh after response so i mean i think a real mature showing i got three quick points and i'll close this out here um underscore i think

dj wagner set a defensive tone i know he struggled a little bit on the offensive end but i think he set a tone defensively from the gago that um that just other people caught on to so um and then to your point about Reeves and just under hype. He is his current splits right now. He's shooting 50% from the floor, 40% from 3, 90% from the line. I think he's sitting just under 90%. First player since 1992-92-93 to be able to do that at Kentucky. That was Travis Ford.

Yeah, it's just him and Travis. You're right. Yeah, yeah, criminally under-hyped. But super great game, awesome atmosphere. Great to get out of Auburn with a win. I totally agree with you. I appreciate the call. I got to make one substitution, Billy,

that I just, I don't know why I forgot. I love E.J. I'm going to take him out of the hot tub, unfortunately. I can't leave Max out. Oh, Max. Yeah. I can't leave out Max. Life of the party, really?

Yeah. So I'm sorry, E.J. If I got to have eight, I'd have you in, but I'm going to have to put Max. So we'll go, it'll be Ramel, Wu, Max, Mike Pratt, Jared, DeMarcus, and who am I miss it? Richie. Those will be this thing. Hey, listen, awesome win. Thanks to all the folks who made the atmosphere fun tonight at KSFR.

Thanks to all of you who listened to the Postgame show. This is the feel-good night Kentucky needed. Six more games. And then we go to a March run that hopefully will be one to remember. Thank you all very much. Thanks to Billy for his great defensive analysis. I think her name was Pam. Our prayers are with you.

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