Is the third time the charm? Kentucky kept it close against Florida in Gainesville. In the regular season finale at Rupp, the Wildcats fell down early, but made it a respectable 7-point margin of defeat. Kentucky is the only team to keep it within single digits of Florida since January. Can they get over the hump at the SEC Tournament? <\/p>\n
The Wildcats got two games to rev their engines, escaping Bridgestone Arena with a 78-72 victory over Missouri on Thursday<\/a>. This is Florida\u2019s second straight game against Kentucky. The Gators were 5.5-point favorites last time. That number is much larger at a neutral site. <\/p>\n Florida opens as an 11.5-point favorite over Kentucky. The total is 159.5, giving us a projected final score of 85.5-74. <\/p>\n KenPom<\/a> has a projected final score of 83-73 in favor of the Gators. Bart Torvik<\/a> is giving Florida one more point in his forecast. <\/p>\n Kentucky has been an underdog in eight SEC games. They\u2019ve covered the spread four times, with outright wins at Arkansas and Tennessee. <\/p>\n The Cats and the Gators have met in the SEC Tournament 10 times since 1985, most recently in 2015. Kentucky is 7-3 over Florida during that run, and 13-4 all-time in the SEC Tournament. Hopefully, the third time will be the charm and the Wildcats can tally another in the win column on Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n [9] Kentucky vs. [1] Florida: How to Watch, Listen<\/p>\n Tipoff: 1:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n TV: SEC Network (Karl Ravech, Jimmy Dykes, Alyssa Lang)<\/p>\n Local Radio: UK Sports Network (Tom Leach, Goose Givens)<\/p>\n AM: 840 WHAS, 630 WLAP<\/p>\n FM: 98.1 WBUL<\/p>\n Online:\u00a0iHeart Radio<\/a><\/p>\n Sirius XM: 106 or 190<\/p>\n You can also follow along on the KSR LIVE BLOG, which will start a few hours before tipoff, and join the conversation on\u00a0KSBoard<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lock in for March Madness with KSR Plus! We\u2019re giving you behind-the-scenes Kentucky Basketball intel you won\u2019t find anywhere else. Join the mo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is the third time the charm? Kentucky kept it close against Florida in Gainesville. In the regular season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-189844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189844","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=189844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}