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This Western KY team!!

Definitely hasn't been pleasant but should prepare us for teams like UT or auburn who do nothing but hack,grab ,and push.
This. It was a good prep game for the SEC teams that like to play the same muck it up chaos style. Killed the offensive flow bc you can’t get through sets due to fouls and results in a FT shooting comp separated by 10-20 possessions of actual play. So it shrinks the real game.

We played at about 60% efficiency and still won by 20. You won’t always be at 75+%efficiency so it’s good to see we can win against an 8-13 seed type team when playing the worst version of ourselves
 
Winning a game like this gives valuable learning experience for us as a team.

Almost every area of the game can be pointed out as needing improvement...

Yet we won by nearly 20.

I wouldn't say it's "comically bad" like some other coach would....


I rather give WKY tons of credit for hanging very tough. All credit to those kids playing so hard and not giving up, even though they were never going to win this game.

Great game to have - a win and lots of game film to go over!
 
That game should be banned from viewing it was so UGLY. Williams, not sure what he was doing a lot tonight. He had some very poor passes, poor all around play for most of the night. Very happy to see us win in a very ugly way. Good on WKU, their plan was to thug us thinking we would fold. Oweh, Butler, Kerr, Carr, Williams will not take to thug ball. Brea I thought played decent defense, got some strips on the ball and such.
 
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Carr has stepped up when we needed a presence against physical play tonight and in the Duke game.
 
13 for western is gonna be a good player. Once his jumpshot gets more consistent and he starts taking good looks he will be a major problem
 
Who is this ref crew. Worst flow of any game all year. I especially like the offensive foul on Kerr spinning away from his defender.
Referees: Keith Kimble, Brian Dorsey, Hunter Allen

UK’s record with
Kimble: 10 wins, 10 losses (most notoriously our final game of 2017, the Elite 8 vs UNC) http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/Officials/Keith_Kimble.html
Dorsey: 3 wins, 6 losses (including the Double OT 2019 Elite 8 vs Auburn and 2024 NCAA matchup vs Oakland) http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/Officials/Brian_Dorsey.html
Allen: 2 wins, 0 losses

Quite a record for the first two, compared to the norm. http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/officials.html
 
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