{"id":155970,"date":"2026-02-15T00:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T00:29:07","slug":"urban-klavzar-was-the-x-factor-in-floridas-win-over-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155970\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Klavzar was the X-factor in Florida\u2019s win over Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseaofblue.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kentucky Wildcats;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kentucky Wildcats<\/a> fell to 17-8 on the season after they couldn\u2019t climb back from an early double-digit deficit against the <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/index.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida Gators;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Florida Gators<\/a>, ultimately falling 92-83.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Wildcats followed their game plan for the majority of the game, but one thing they failed to do throughout was stop the Gators\u2019 sixth man, Urban Klavzar.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A lot of the Gators\u2019 squad was pretty close to their output in the win, but Klavzar ended up being the X-factor on Saturday in Gainesville. The junior from Slovenia ended the game with a career high in points (19) and shots made (seven).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Klavzar, who usually averages roughly 10 points a game, was left wide-open way too many times on Saturday. A 34% shooter from behind the arc, Klavzar really sealed the game for the Gators as he had 14 points and four 3-pointers in the second-half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Just poor defense and not stepping up on Klavzar really cost the Wildcats in the back half of the game. Xavian Lee and Klavzar went a combined 9-18 from deep, and the Cats just had no answer on the defensive end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mark Pope was asked about the defense played on Lee and Klavzar. \u201cI probably made a mistake on the matchups. I should\u2019ve rethought that a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kentucky Wildcats fell to 17-8 on the season after they couldn\u2019t climb back from an early double-digit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,2530,30,29,2529,74957,26675,71833],"class_list":{"0":"post-155970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-gators","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-kentucky-wildcats","13":"tag-matt-pendleton-imagn","14":"tag-the-gators","15":"tag-xavian-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}