In a game Kentucky really needed to win yesterday, the Wildcats came out flat and never led against the Florida Gators on Senior Day at Rupp Arena.<\/p>\n
A late surge wasn\u2019t enough for Kentucky, as they fell 84-77 in a game that wasn\u2019t really as close as the final score indicates.<\/p>\n
Kentucky wraps up the regular season with a 19-12 overall record, and a 10-8 mark in SEC play. At one point yesterday, Kentucky was in contention to rise up the SEC standings, but instead, Kentucky is the 9-seed heading into the SEC Tournament and will play in the first game of the tournament in Nashville.<\/p>\n
This is a far cry from where we thought this team would be headed into the season, and what is expected in the commonwealth.<\/p>\n
But nonetheless, Kentucky will open the SEC Tournament taking on the 16-seed LSU at 12:30 ET on Wednesday with the winner advancing to take on 8-seed Missouri in the second round.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a rough Year 4 for Matt McMahon in Baton Rouge, as the Tigers finish the regular season with a record of 15-16 and 3-15 in conference play. The Tigers did have multiple close losses in conference play, but none closer than when Kentucky came to town on January 14.<\/p>\n
LSU held Kentucky to just 22 points in the first half and led by 16 at the break, but Kentucky stormed back in the second half and Collin Chandler threw a full-court pass to Malachi Moreno, who hit a jumper in the final seconds to give Kentucky the win.<\/p>\n
Kentucky could have its hands full again on Wednesday when they take on the Tigers in Nashville.<\/p>\n
I miss when fans of other teams searched for moral victories when playing Kentucky.<\/p>\n
Kentucky never led in both matchups against the Gators.<\/p>\n
No real surprises in that one.<\/p>\n
A big loss on the recruiting trail for UK Football.<\/p>\n
UCONN may have lost its bid for a 1-seed.<\/p>\n
A big day pay for the big man in the middle of the Eagles defense.<\/p>\n
I still don\u2019t like these rules that prevent teams from playing in the tournament.<\/p>\n
Will Wade\u2019s NC State squad may end up sweating on Selection Sunday.<\/p>\n
What will the changes be?<\/p>\n
A lot will ride on Kenny Minchey.<\/p>\n
Both front offices will be feeling the pressure with this deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a game Kentucky really needed to win yesterday, the Wildcats came out flat and never led against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,73532,74757,26678],"class_list":["post-183086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball-news","tag-kentucky-wildcats-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183086","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=183086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}