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.

And we can't beat Oakland (MI, not even CA), a team that had never won an NCAAT game. This is what we get for however millions Cal is stealing? I've said it for several seasons now - the man is not a good coach. His teams rarely improve over the course of the season, have the same mental breakdowns, the same inexplicable turnovers, the same inability to cope with in-game situations, etc. and it all starts with Cal. I truly wonder what we practice. I could state a whole list of things it's pretty obvious we DON'T practice. His in-game substitutions are illogical and detrimental to the team more times than not. His end-of-game strategies are laughably bad (just check out our record in close games in the last minute over the past few seasons). His schemes and philosophies are years past their freshness date. His 'defense' is just plain bad. It doesn't look like our staff even scouts the opposing team most games - just roll the ball out and let 'em play!

I basically quit watching UKBB a few years ago outside a few minutes here and there during the season. Did not watch a dribble tonight, dreading the inevitable. If Cal comes back, I won't even check the scores next year. Might as well be WNBA or MLS next year 'cause I'm done with that overrated, hard headed, arrogant coach we have. Done.

I can honestly say I've never rooted against UK in anything. But, I found myself hoping we'd lose if that would be the death knell of the Calipari Era at UK. We'll see what the next few weeks holds for the program. But, it's on a slippery slope that's steadily getting steeper, imo.

We’ve been down on Amari for his free throw this season.

Did he miss one tonight?

Keep it up big fella!

105 with nearly 8 in double figures?

The scary thing is we were rotten from 3 again.

We will demolish teams when we shoot 35% or better from three.

We will still win even when we don't.
This team will beat good teams when we are not making threes. It wont be by 29 but we will still find the winners circle.

They shot out of their minds from 3 but still got drilled by 30.


96.5 ppg

2 points for Cal at the first time out. Pathetic. Maybe Fland has the game of his life and Arkansas wins but so glad those days are gone. Offense is horrific and completely unprepared for a big game. Same ole same ole. But again maybe Fland goes off and saves Cal.

Garrison in jogging suit during warmups. Looks like he ain’t playin for whatever reason.

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Get er done cats.

Lions were all over the Bears, leading 16-0 at half. Bears come back and are within 3 points with a little over 3:00 to play and the ball deep in their own territory. They make some plays, get to DET 25 with 46 secs to go and ONE timeout remaining. Good shape for at least a fairly easy opportunity to take the game into OT, right? Well, hold the phone, Cawood.

Incomplete on 1st, holding on 2nd down. Now, it's 2nd and 20 at DET 35 with 36 secs to go. Williams gets sacked at the DET 41 with right at 31 secs showing. The Bears run up to the line, a couple of guys shift, Williams is motioning the play, they snap the ball with 6 secs to go (25 secs elapsed). Williams doesn't go short over the middle or to the sideline to pick up some yards and get back into FG range. He lofts a deep ball to the end zone that falls incomplete and ends the game. STILL HAD ONE TIMEOUT REMAINING!!!! Did not call TO after the sack to get organized, did not get set very quickly allowing 25 precious seconds to tick away, did not call two plays in the huddle so that they could get one more play off to get back into FG range. I mean, it was very Stoopian. Even my wife, who rarely watches football and is only marginally familiar with the game, asked me, 'Shouldn't they have called a timeout instead of wasting all that time?'. Uh, yeah.

Unbelievable someone at the top of their profession can be so inept in a critical situation.

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The lead expands even wider...

Haven’t been on here much since transitioning out of the Army into civilian life so I’m sure it’s been said many times, but it’s almost sad to realize how bad it has gotten the last 5 years.

The way this offense runs, I’ve caught myself looking at off ball players more than I ever have. It’s so fun to see how excited the bench and coaches get over the little hustle plays. I’m one that HATED the hire, and was very vocal about it. So glad to be eating the largest crow.

Good to be back, missed the discourse.

just curious is there a model that shows betting odds or chance to win % for say Indiana VS. the top ten of the SEC ? Or Penn st ? Because Tosu is good but he rest of the conference is potted meat .

Anyone watching? Got this on one screen and the other ready for some football

Email chadrock@windstream.net if interested.

on the number of Tard fans who will be arrested??? 😂😂😂 GBB🏈