I had high hopes for this Kentucky women\u2019s team today, but they were dashed almost immediately.<\/p>\n
After the first quarter, Kenny Brooks said Texas was \u201con another planet,\u201d and they were great. But more worrying, he said, \u201cwe are not competing.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the theme all day long as Texas just wanted it more.<\/p>\n
And that is the part that you can\u2019t have in a win-or-go-home showdown.<\/p>\n
1st quarter was emblematic of the rest of the game<\/p>\n
Amelia Hassett buried a 3 to give Kentucky a 3-point lead, and then Texas would go on a 15-0 run that essentially ended the game. The Cats had multiple bad turnovers and allowed the Longhorns to get going with easy layup after layup.<\/p>\n
Tonie Morgan had maybe the worst game of her career<\/p>\n
Tonie Morgan has been wonderful for Kentucky this year. She broke the single-season assist record and helped lead the team to its first Sweet 16 in a decade. But today she was terrible.<\/p>\n
The senior finished the game with 8 points and 8 turnovers. She couldn\u2019t defend, and she couldn\u2019t get Kentucky into any kind of offense.<\/p>\n
A late run got it 15, and Amelia Hassett had a chance to cut it to 12 with 5 to go, but her 3 fell off the rim, and then the turnovers started right back up again.<\/p>\n
3 straight turnovers and a 7-0 Texas run was all she wrote.<\/p>\n
Kentucky would finish the game with 24 turnovers and 24 made shots. It\u2019s a miracle they only lost by 22.<\/p>\n
It was a good season that had a terrible end. Now we have to look towards the Transfer Portal and see how Kentucky can reload. They have a top 10 recruiting class coming in, but replacing Teonni Key, Jordan Obi, Tonie Morgan, Josie Gilvin, and Amelia Hassett won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n
That is a lot of production leaving. Kaelyn Carroll will need to take a step forward, and the freshman will have to play a key role. But with the portal, you can quickly reload. And Kentucky will get a head start on that.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s next season, though. For now, let\u2019s tip our hat to a team that had a remarkable run.<\/p>\n
What will you remember most about this team?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I had high hopes for this Kentucky women\u2019s team today, but they were dashed almost immediately. After the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43894,86890,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-225082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-kentucky-wildcats-news","tag-kentucky-womens-basketball","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}