Final. The Cats played well at times. A win in late Feb. is a win!

Checks two boxes for a good day for me:

*Kentucky wins

*Florida loses

4 minutes ago, 16thBBall Fan said:

Final. The Cats played well at times. A win in late Feb. is a win!

That was such a weird game to watch. It felt like UK was controlling it for most of it and playing well offensively and defensively. Then somehow end up having like multiple two minute stretches where they couldn’t do anything right offensively or defensively and would allow Florida to go on like 9-0 runs in a two minutes stretches. 
 

Very weird game. Definitely would like to see them be more clean at the end of the game. However, any road win is a good win. Which at this moment it is a quad one win giving UK now 5 quad one wins. It eventually may change since Florida may eventually drop out of the top 70 in NET rankings before this regular season is over. 

Back to back games that I had Kentucky's ML. Might on Saturday depending on how much they are favored by.

Love Livingston right now. He is putting together some solid games. Really coming into his own.

Just a solid team win. 

Wallace needs to clean up some turnovers.

Every road win is a good one. Cal has got to get more minutes out of his bench. The stretches of bad play tonight and the sloppiness at the end of these last two games is because the players are tired. Look at these minutes played:

Livingston and Reeves 39

Oscar and Wallace 38

Toppin 35

That will lose games in the tournament. But, glad I feel confident in making tournament related comments now.

If UK beats Auburn Saturday, they are looking good for the 3 seed in the SEC tournament.

Any chance Kentucky can play themselves into a 7 seed or better?

Sounds like Lunardi had them slotted as a 9 seed last night, against Purdue.

Have to figure out right times to use bench, didn’t like the early sub rotation when the five are playing so well, just a little common sense please.

2 hours ago, MJAlltheWay24 said:

Any chance Kentucky can play themselves into a 7 seed or better?

Sounds like Lunardi had them slotted as a 9 seed last night, against Purdue.

Matt Jones said on post game show that best case scenario, they could play themselves to a 6 seed. I don't see them beating Arkansas at their place or winning SEC tourney. Just happy to be off the bubble for now! 

We aren't going to give Calipari credit for getting things turned around and heading in the right direction after starting conference play 1-3, are we?

24 minutes ago, MJAlltheWay24 said:

We aren't going to give Calipari credit for getting things turned around and heading in the right direction after starting conference play 1-3, are we?

Not how this works. Please remember Calipari receives 100% of the blame, 0% of the credit. When in reality if you are giving him 100% of the blame, he should receive 100% of the credit.

I'm nominating Oscar for worst best player in college basketball history. Also kind of odd overnight he has become UK's third best rebounder ?

26 minutes ago, KyDad said:

Matt Jones said on post game show that best case scenario, they could play themselves to a 6 seed. I don't see them beating Arkansas at their place or winning SEC tourney. Just happy to be off the bubble for now! 

They would need to go 2-1 down the stretch here and win a couple games in the SEC tourney to have a shot. Keep in mind it is not as if other teams are taking off locking up high seeds. A six seed is a team viewed as the 24th - 27th best in the country. That is not out of the realm of consideration for the committee.

2 hours ago, nikeman49 said:

Have to figure out right times to use bench, didn’t like the early sub rotation when the five are playing so well, just a little common sense please.

I didn't understand putting in both Collins and Ware at the same time. Seems you would try and have Oscar or Toppin on the court at all times.

1 hour ago, bugatti said:

I'm nominating Oscar for worst best player in college basketball history. Also kind of odd overnight he has become UK's third best rebounder ?

Teams are focusing so hard on keeping Oscar off the boards. Great to see Livingston and Toppin taking advantage of it!

2 hours ago, bugatti said:

I didn't understand putting in both Collins and Ware at the same time. Seems you would try and have Oscar or Toppin on the court at all times.

Cal normally subs Oscar out before the 8 timeout...I would like to see him use the under 12, under 8 and under 4 timeout in the first and 16,12,8 in the second half to get guys a few minutes of rest.  

This is providing no foul trouble.

I am wondering if he is trying to keep rotation at a min, so when the 2 injured come back there isn't PT issues.