More Potential SEC Basketball Bad News for Kentucky

Kentucky’s loss to Alabama was unhealthy. It might get even uglier in SEC play subsequent Saturday.

The Wildcats will likely be on the street but once more, dealing with a high ten SEC opponent. Subsequent week will probably be towards rival Tennessee who has a knack for suffocating opponents. On the identical day Alabama put the cuffs on Oscar Tshiebwe, Tennessee utterly shut out South Carolina star G.G. Jackson. After scoring in double figures in each recreation this season, the freshman phenom put up an enormous goose-egg, lacking all eight discipline objectives and scoring zero factors within the Volunteers’ 85-42 victory over South Carolina.

Tennessee now has the No. 1 protection within the nation, in accordance with KenPom. They rank second nationally in scoring protection (53.2 ppg.), second in opponent discipline objective proportion (33.7%) and seventh in opponent turnovers per recreation (17.7). Rick Barnes has a profitable file over John Calipari since he arrived in Knoxville and is 6-3 over their final 9 head-to-head matchups. The Cats won’t rating 40 factors subsequent Saturday. This subsequent recreation is setting as much as be the BBN’s worst nightmare.

An LSU Loss Hurts Kentucky’s Resume

Contemporary off a loss in Lexington, LSU traveled to Faculty Station and Buzz Williams placed on a clinic. Texas A&M dealt with the Bayou Bengals in a 69-55 win. Why is that this unhealthy information for the Wildcats? The loss dropped LSU to No. 89 within the NET scores, making the UK mid-week win a Quad 3 win. Kentucky is 1-5 vs. Quad 1 and Quad 2 opponents.

SEC Basketball Standings

Despite the fact that these early standings are misleading, an influence rating of the convention wouldn’t look drastically totally different.

Mizzou Holds Off Vanderbilt

Profitable at Vanderbilt’s unorthodox fitness center by no means comes too simply for the Cats, however they sometimes discover a solution to win in equally unorthodox vogue. That could be a taller job this spring.

Jerry Stackhouse’s group confirmed loads of combat towards red-hot Missouri. After trailing by 11 halfway by means of the second half, Vanderbilt clawed again into the sport and tied it at 71 with lower than 5 minutes to play at Mizzou Area. A DeAndre Ghoulston layup gave the Tigers the lead they usually hit a dozen free throws within the closing minutes to place away the Commodores with an 85-82 victory.

Auburn Mollywhops Arkansas

One good comfort prize for Kentucky followers: We don’t must cope with an SEC street journey to see sweaty Bruce Pearl on the Plains. No. 13 Arkansas, nonetheless taking part in with out Nick Smith, let Auburn go on a late run to shut out the primary half with an 11-point lead. Regardless of the Razorbacks’ finest efforts, they might by no means get inside placing vary within the second half. Wendell Greene had 19 factors and Johni Broome had a 10-point, 10-rebound double-double in Auburn’s 72-59 victory.