Yellow Jackets up 17-0, nearly halftime. Tech has over 300 yards of offense while Georgia doesn’t have 100. SEC is definitely a little down this year

Moser was like what the hell?

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Bought the crowd ice cream after the game because he was sick! I hope he wins here because he’s going to go down as a legend.

Another site now reporting USCjr leading for this DT. I thoughts the Kats had him in the bag...What happened?

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Amazing. Love this program again.

Twitter-verse at Arena, says he is in street clothes.

In the post game talk to the crowd, Pope confirms Kerr was trying to get to 1000 points in his career and team was allowing him to shoot and wanting him to make it.

Screw the spread.

And just said all the fans that stayed get FREE ICE CREAM since he can't stay for autographs.

UK had the 2nd straight bad game from 3 point range making 7 of 26 but due to the other good shooting and out rebounding them we still won by 29. Considering we played our worst defensive game of the year by a mile I'd say not too bad. This was our last true cupcake so I'd attribute the poor defense to just knowing subconsciously that the game was going to be an easy one, in other words a let down game that happens to all teams on occasion. The good news is they keep showing they can win in different ways and we came close to having a fifth guy lead the team in scoring with Roginson edging out Butler by two points. Free throws could have done it for you Lamont but keep working on it; the stroke looks fine.

I think it’s something worth asking. If Pope has the run over the next few years that we all hope he does, could u see him leaving for an NBA job? I could see him being a perfect fit for the NBA and I’m sure there’s some GM’s out there who believe the same thing. Would his love for KY be enough to hang on to him?

I have two ticket and a purple parking lot pass for the Louisville game tomorrow. Sec 16 Row 36 seats 20 and 21. They are right on the aisle. $150. Message me if interested. You can text at 502-609-6817

I heard/watched some older talking head blather on and on that “the BIG is better than the SEC,” defending the damn-near certainty that IU will bump a 10-2 SEC team from the playoffs.

Right!!!!!

That jerkwad was simply speaking to his mid-western cronies and the mid-western viewers.

When the SEC gets only three teams in, and the BIG four, in the South, all the kings’ horses and all the kings’ men will soon see to it that sh!t don’t happen again!!

I’d bet we’ll be at 24 teams within 5 years.

Interested in reading what the guys believe will happen today.

Anyone have any updates?

* Cats get the win over a feisty Georgia State team. It took a flagrant foul and a little dust up to wake up what had been a sleepwalking group of Cats.

* The score was 59-53 at the 13:30 timeout. The technical fouls occurred less than a minute later. The Cats outscored Georgia State 46-17 to finish the game ... and that includes a 6-0 run by GA State to finish the game when Kerr got shot happy.

* The stat of the game, Cats were 7-26 from 3pt line while Georgia State went 11-21, for a +12 on the game .... Robinson, Brea, Kerr were a combined 4-17 from the 3pt line ...

* Amari Williams has not been good for 3/4's of the last two games, but woke up the last 7 minutes ... he and Garrison have to be active and productive for the Cats to make a run.

* Cats need to play with better full game urgency - more like we saw to finish the game - in order to compete in the SEC this year. The league is very strong this year, top to bottom, no easy games. Our defense will need to do a better job of defending drives to the basket ... we are going to see a boatload of that this year playing against a lot of very athletic teams.

* Up Next: The schedule starts to heat up, first with a trip to Clemson on Tuesday night.

Let's get it on...

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He has all the confidence in the world in Stoops being able to turn this around quickly. Is he in a Universe the rest of us are not???
Name me one long tenure coach that collapsed and came back?? I can’t think of one.
We were inside the 5 yd line 6 times this year with zero points. That is almost impossible bad.
4 running backs had Career days against our Veteran defense.
We have won one SEC home game in two years.
This is beyond repair and any fool should know that.

Thats in just the 1st 7 games.

These chumps know whats comin and they dont like it.

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KENTUCKY HC MARK POPE Q&A:

* Thought it was a great night of basketball, even the saltiness. A physical game. This is Georgia State's third game in four nights. A real commendable effort from them. Nice to see our guys rally around each other. Guys were still talking about it in the lockerroom, happy with how they had each other's back, kept the focus, and finished the game strong.

* On Kerr Kriisa's wild night... He's a 1-of-1. I love coaching him. Our guys love him as teammates. He was spectacular tonight. At one point he was +16 with us up only 6 points. Super animated, brings so much to the game. A lot of moxie. Says Lamont Butler know Kerr was just 3 points away from 1,000 in his career. That was why he was firing away in the last minute. Brings some "salty juice" to our team.

* On a night when we didn't shoot the ball great, we outscored them 62-24 in the paint. Really proud of that. That part is super-exciting to me.

* On the shenanigans/shoving incident.... You want to get in there as quick as possible and remove people from the fray. Joked that his second thought was his wife wasn't running out there to take on somebody. She loves it when it gets salty. (Laughs)

* On Lamont Butler's night... My goodness he was good today. Made it look like he could replicate those plays over and over again. Not blindly racing downhill. He's a prober, manipulating all the pieces on the court. He was awesome. Terrific. Brilliant.

* On big games coming up... The last two games were great learning situations for us. Our first road games coming up, against elite-level talent. Both physical teams, Clemson in particular. Going into a combat week. Excited about it. Going to learn more about our team. It's what you love about college basketball.

* Pace wasn't an elite level for us tonight, but still good.

* On the team bonding even more when you go out on the road... It's good times and hard times and all the times that bring teams together.

* Pope says he'll leave with a comment about the referees... Talking about his cufflinks, says I know you wonder where this thing is going. Says the refs saw his cufflinks break and one of them was on the floor. "See, these guys see everything!"

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GEORGIA STATE HC JONAS HAYES Q&A:

* Helluva Kentucky team. Proud of the fight we brought today, though. Big Blue Nation brought their fight, too. It was a good battle for a while. We want to play a physical brand of ball. There was nothing sinister to it. Clash (Peters) is like it every day in our practices. You can't win 'em all, but you can bring your fight to the court every time you step between the lines.

* Our chief goal was to not get burned on the 3 ball tonight, and we held them to 7.

* Asked if he thinks people will try to be physical with UK, Hayes says they were just as physical as we were, from our vantage point at least.

* On UK having seven guys in double figures... that's why they're the No. 8 team in the country. Really good.

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UK PLAYERS Q&A:

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Reported that Garrison is in sweats during warmups.

Got 3 in 225 $30 each. Press box side gives you just a little bit of cover from the elements

KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
RUPP ARENA AT CENTRAL BANK CENTER | LEXINGTON, KY
NOV. 29, 2024
ATTENDANCE: 19,914

Final Score: #8 Kentucky 105, Georgia State 76

Team Records and Series Notes

• Kentucky is 7-0 and Georgia State is 4-4.
• Kentucky leads the series 3-0, with two games played in Lexington.
• Mark Pope is now 194-108 as a head coach, including 7-0 at Kentucky.
  • Pope is 2-0 vs. Georgia State.
• Next for Kentucky: the Wildcats begin a two-game road swing Tuesday at Clemson in the SEC/ACC Challenge. Game time is 9:30 p.m. and it will be televised on ESPN.

Team Notes

• Kentucky has a 7-0 start for the first time since the 2016-17 team won its first seven.
  • The UK men’s and women’s teams are each 7-0. It is the fifth time in school history that each team began at least 7-0, including 2015-16, 2011-12, 2009-10 and 1982-83.
• The Cats are 6-0 inside Rupp Arena on the year and are averaging exactly 100 points per home contest. Tonight marked UK’s fourth 100-point game of the season.
  • Overall, the Wildcats entered the game third in the nation in scoring with an average of 95.3 points per game.
• Seven Wildcats scored in double figures for the first time this season. The last time that happened was March 2 of this year at home vs. Arkansas.
• Kentucky won the rebounding, 36-27, and has won the rebounding in six of seven games this season. In the other game, UK trailed Duke by only one board.
  • UK entered the game leading the nation in defensive rebounds, 35.2 per game.
• Kentucky won the turnover battle 18-9 and capitalized at a remarkable rate, winning points off turnovers 36-8.
• Entering the game fourth in the nation in assists, UK had 23 tonight, as five players had at least three. The Wildcats are now averaging 21.1 helpers per game.
  • The Cats have an assist rate of 61.2% for the season with 148 assists on 242 made FGs.

Player Notes

• Jaxson Robinson led the Wildcats with 19 points, his fourth double-figure game of the season.
• Lamont Butler had 17 points, his fourth straight game in double figures, and game highs with six assists and three steals.
• After going scoreless with only one rebound in the first half, Amari Williams collected 14 points and five boards in the second stanza.
• Otega Oweh had 12 points and has scored double figures in every game this season.
• Ansley Almonor had a season-high 12 points, his third double-figure game of the season.
• Andrew Carr totaled 10 points and a game-high eight rebounds.
• Koby Brea had 10 points and has made at least two 3-pointers in every game this season.

In the First Half

• Kentucky’s starters were Lamont Butler, Otega Oweh, Jaxson Robinson, Andrew Carr and Amari Williams for the seventh consecutive game.
  • First subs were Koby Brea and Ansley Almonor at 15:42.
• Georgia State scored the first three points but the Wildcats tallied seven straight and led the remainder of the game.
• Kentucky stretched the lead to 10 points at 20-10 but the Panthers clawed back within 31-29 at the 5:06 mark.
• The Wildcats responded as Almonor swished a 3-pointer from the right corner, Carr muscled his way for a basket-and-one, Oweh dunked a fast break, Oweh hit two foul shots and Kriisa drained a 3-pointer to give UK a 13-0 run and 44-29 lead.
• Kentucky led at halftime 48-33. The Wildcats shot 67.9 percent from the field, including 15 of 17 on two-point attempts. Butler paced the scoring with 13 points.

In the Second Half

• Kentucky began the second half with the starting lineup.
• UK was up by 12 when a 6-0 Georgia State spurt halved the lead at 59-53, coaxing a Wildcat timeout with 13:30 remaining.
• UK led 61-53 with 12:37 remaining when the game was stopped for an altercation.
  • GSU’s Clash Peters was called for an intentional foul.
  • UK’s Brea and GSU’s Zarique Nutter were called for offsetting contact technical fouls.
  • When play resumed, Williams made two free throws for the intentional foul. UK got the ball, Williams was fouled and made both ends of a 1-and-1 to make it 65-53.
• UK steadily increased the advantage, leading by as many as 35 points at 105-70.