LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Fayette County students have been outside the classroom for more than a week now and that includes some of our own kids.

WKYT’s Victor Puente’s daughter, Vera, has had to come to work with him for the past few days.

We talked with Vera about what it’s been like being here at the station with us and this is what she shared.

“I think I’m liking since I got to be here two days in a row, it was so awesome. And also, like, I can just feel me raising up ‘cause this place is so cool, I wish I could be here instead of school,” Vera said.

Of course, Vera and the rest of Fayette County students will be back in school on Thursday.

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The Texas A&M Aggies have had a good start to their season, but in a conference as cutthroat as the SEC is this year, good simply isn’t good enough.

After falling to No. 4 Alabama 94-88 on Saturday, the Aggies lost to another of the SEC’s top teams in No. 8 Kentucky 81-69 on Tuesday. A&M is now 13-4 on the season, but 2-2 in conference play with both of its losses coming against true national championship contenders.

If the Aggies want to ascend to that level, then they can learn a thing or two from their recent opponents.

“They’re good enough to win the national championship,” head coach Buzz Williams said of Kentucky after the game. “… I think they play with great spirit. I think their coach has a phenomenal spirit. I think how he leads is the appropriate way, in 2025. You can tell. You can tell how they compete. You can tell how they play. You can tell by watching their huddles. You can tell how they’re in and out of substitutions.

Both Alabama and Kentucky have been among the SEC’s elite for some time now. The former just made its first Final Four appearance last year, and while the latter hasn’t had much postseason success over the past few years, Kentucky is one of the sport’s blue bloods and first-year head coach Mark Pope has breathed new life into the program.

The Aggies kept it close with both of those teams, but in order to assert themselves as a true championship contender, they’re going to have to win games like these throughout the season.

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Kentucky basketball just secured their fifth top 15 win of the season, the most of any team in college basketball this season. Not just that, but the Wildcats outrebounded #11 Texas A&M, who is the best defensive rebounding team in the country, and showed some fight against the very physical and chippy Aggie squad. Amari Williams led the Wildcats with 12 rebounds, and guard Jaxson Robinson added 8 boards as Kentucky’s leading rebounders.

The Wildcats have pounding improving rebounding into their heads in the last few weeks, and the hard work in practice to improve that and be tough enough to attack the glass against very physical teams is now paying off. Mark Pope has taken notice, and he is loving their improvement in that area. It all starts with every play doing his part.

“One of the things we’ve been talking about is our guards making a bigger impact. Otega (Oweh) had 8 last game. Jax(son) (Robinson) had seven this game. That is a massive difference maker for us on the glass. It’s pretty great. …When our guys dig into a focus, it might not be an immediate payoff in a day but over the course of a week or two weeks or a month, these guys every single time answered the bell, actually got better. For us to be 40, 30 (rebound totals) and we are going to out offensive rebound them by one and we are going to hold two of the best offensive rebounders in the entire country, their starting five and backup five to only one offensive rebound between them, that’s an epic effort by our guys and I’m really proud. I’m saying that because we have so much respect for what Texas A&M does on the glass. They are incredible on the glass. …They offensive rebound 44% of the opportunities. That’s an insane number, and they came in as number one in the country.”

– Pope on Kentucky’s rebounding.

After Kentucky got absolutely bulied on the glass, out-physicalled there and a lot of other areas in their 12-point loss to Georgia, they have really answered all of the “soft” comments from people and have became much more physical and putting up better rebounding numbers. They’ll face another top rebounding team in the country in #4 Alabama on Saturday in Rupp Arena.