Flops more than Duke under coach K. Their bigs spent more time laying on the court than running on the court.
This Western KY team!!
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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.
Betting we see a lot of teams just gonna try to beat us with pro wrestling going forward. Gotta make more of the freebies to punish.
Definitely hasn't been pleasant but should prepare us for teams like UT or auburn who do nothing but hack,grab ,and push.
Everytime one of their bigs took a shot they would fall to the ground and the refs fell for it everytime.
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
WKU played very hard on defense and kept our open looks from 3 to a minimum. Very quick hard-nosed players who seemed to want it just a little bit more than some of our guys. Thank God for Andrew Carr. Another Duke-like performance. Our other big men are pretty limited inside against tough defense.
We have a very good team.
I think we can be an excellent team.
I think we can be an excellent team.
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!
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 felt like a very bad Auburn team, good comp. High pace and intensity from them but ugly game.
I'd describe it as an ugly win, but to win by 19 when it's ugly is encouraging.
They should have covered whichever end of the floor they were trying to score on, with flour. On every fall they'd look like a biscuit with limbs.
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.
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
I thought Western played great hard nosed defense the whole game and didn’t let up one bit, I loved that about their team…
Referees: Keith Kimble, Brian Dorsey, Hunter Allen
Kentucky 87-68 Western Kentucky (Nov 26, 2024) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Kentucky Wildcats vs. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers NCAAM game, final score 87-68, from November 26, 2024 on ESPN.
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
Half their team would have fouled out if the game was called like it should have been. That wasn’t basketball.
This Western team plays good D even Coach Pope was saying our great there D was and of course Ky 3s was not falling well.
At one point, I just wanted us to actually give them a hard foul just to remind WKU what it's like to fall for a reason. Kinda like that duke kid who got his shoulder obliterated by Amari's screen.
Now, I'm not advocating for injury or malice – just our presence and physicality felt.
Catch - and POST - of the week right right here. I sure hope everyone here sees it! It explains pretty much everything needed to take away from this game.Referees: Keith Kimble, Brian Dorsey, Hunter Allen
UK’s record withKentucky 87-68 Western Kentucky (Nov 26, 2024) Final Score - ESPN
Game summary of the Kentucky Wildcats vs. Western Kentucky Hilltoppers NCAAM game, final score 87-68, from November 26, 2024 on ESPN.www.espn.com
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
Establishing a coaches challenge was a step in the right direction....
Can we get an " alternate selection" of officials available to choose from in advance of the game ?
Of course, they would stack any alternate list of officials (like above) with good ole' mainstays we have come to love.
Sorry, loathe, not love.
He'll be transferring up a level within a year or two.
The way WKU came at us is the blueprint for how to at least keep it close with the Cats. This of course assumes we aren't hitting 3s at a "oh sh*t" pace like last night. Even then we still were able to get off a lot of 3s even with them in our grills and under our jerseys.
I expect all of the SEC, UL and Clemson to play exactly like this on defense. Muck it up and hope to slow down the game in an attempt to keep it close or make it a free throw competition. Last night was a good experience for this team moving ahead into the season.
I expect all of the SEC, UL and Clemson to play exactly like this on defense. Muck it up and hope to slow down the game in an attempt to keep it close or make it a free throw competition. Last night was a good experience for this team moving ahead into the season.
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Thanks @runt#69
Looking at the stat list, there are only a handful of active referees who have officiated more than 2 of our games where UK wins only 50% or less of the time. The lowest percentage comes from Dorsey, and Larry Spaulding (whose last UK game was in 2022), both at 33.3%. To pair Dorsey with Kimble (now 50%, after last night) is quite an interesting combination. Glad to have won by 19!
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