At The Half: Georgia leads Kentucky by 10; torpedoes incoming

Earlier within the week, Joe Lunardi mentioned a loss to Georgia will torpedo Kentucky Basketball‘s season and knock the Wildcats out of the match dialog. Properly, by one half in Athens, the radar reveals torpedoes headed towards Lexington because the Wildcats path the Bulldogs, 42-32, in a must-win state of affairs.

A part of the issue for Kentucky is the group is with out two of its guards, CJ Fredrick and Sahvir Wheeler, who’re every out with accidents. John Calipari began Cason Wallace, Antonio Reeves, Chris Livingston, Jacob Toppin, and Oscar Tshiebwe with out them, and already went to Adou Thiero for some assist off the bench. Thiero gave 15 good minutes, his first time since January.

Including to the Wildcats’ depth issues within the backcourt, Wallace picked up two fast fouls 20 seconds aside, forcing Calipari to bench his greatest guard and solely ballhandler minutes into the sport. He did, nonetheless, break his personal rule and sub Wallace again in to cease Georgia’s early run. The Bulldogs led by eight early earlier than Antonio Reeves acquired sizzling and made it a sport for a stretch.

He has 15 factors at halftime. This can be a sport when Kentucky wants the College of Antonio Reeves.

Within the center, Georgia is swarming Oscar Tshiebwe to stop one other superhuman efficiency from him inside. Tshiebwe has six factors, 5 rebounds and 4 assists at intermission.

A few different participant observations: Livingston acquired killed defensively within the first 20 minutes, a pattern that may’t proceed out of halftime. Then there’s Georgia’s main scorer, Terry Roberts, rising from his questionable enjoying standing for 4 factors in 11 reserve minutes.

As a group, Kentucky is 11-for-31 from the sector and Reeves revamped half of these pictures. Georgia leads on the glass, too.

20 minutes to dodge the torpedoes.