After upset win, Colin Castleton leads Florida against Kentucky

Florida and Kentucky, who play one another Saturday night time in a Southeastern Convention contest in Lexington, Ky., have one main factor in frequent: bizarre seasons being propped up by an enormous win over present No. 2 Tennessee.

The Wildcats (15-7, 6-3 SEC) upset the Volunteers 63-56 on Jan. 14 in Knoxville to start out a stretch of 5 wins in six video games, whereas the Gators (13-9, 6-3) stopped Tennessee 67-54 Wednesday night time for his or her third Quadrant 1 win in 13 tries.

The Vols led 44-38 with 10:40 left, however Florida closed the sport out with a 29-10 run handy first-year coach Todd Golden his finest win on the job.

“I really feel like we’re higher than our document indicated, even via a few of these stretches,” Golden stated. “I am simply extremely pleased with our guys for placing an effort like that collectively for 40 minutes.”

Colin Castleton led the Gators with 20 factors and 9 rebounds in one other strong effort for the 6-foot-11 middle. On the season, he is averaging 15.1 factors per recreation and seven.7 boards together with 3.1 blocked pictures. Florida’s different double-figure scorer is guard Will Richard (10.1 ppg).

Thanks partly to Castleton, the Gators rank third within the nation in blocked pictures at 6.1 per recreation.

In the meantime, Kentucky is coming off a 75-66 win Tuesday night time at Ole Miss behind 27 factors off the bench from Antonio Reeves. Hitting 8 of 12 pictures, together with 6 of seven from 3-point vary, Reeves gave the Wildcats a much-needed enhance in opposition to the struggling Rebels.

“Whenever you’re enjoying basketball and one man will get it going, then you definately play him and also you undergo him,” Kentucky coach John Calipari stated. “That is why we stored going to Antonio.”

Reeves raised his scoring common to 13.4 ppg, second on the staff behind Oscar Tshiebwe (16.5 ppg, 13.6 rebounds per recreation). The Wildcats additionally get 11.5 ppg and 6.3 rpg from Jacob Toppin, and 11.3 ppg from Cason Wallace.

–Subject Degree Media