Kentucky’s Just Too Good: Wildcats 102, Hooisers 90

Indiana played terrific: The Hoosiers shot 51 percent and five players scored in double figures.

Kentucky was … Kentucky. The Wildcats shot an incredible 35-of-37 from the foul line and pulled away in the final 10 minutes to defeat one of the two teams to beat them earlier this season.

If you thought UNC/Ohio was a fantastic game, this one topped it from an aesthetic standpoint for the first 35 minutes.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist took over for Kentucky in the second half, scoring on his usual assortment of put-backs and aggressive drives, and finished with 24 points. Doron Lamb added 21, Darius Miller scored 19. That trio didn’t miss a free-throw in 23 attempts. UK’s best player, Anthony Davis, was saddled with two early ticky-tack fouls and sat out the final 14 minutes of the first half. Davis, who might win the National Player of the Year award, scored just nine points, but did collect 12 rebounds.

Indiana, which will open next season in the Top 5 if star freshman Cody Zeller passes on the NBA, got 27 points from Christian Watford, 20 from Zeller, and 15 from Victor Olapido before he fouled out.

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13 Responses to “Kentucky’s Just Too Good: Wildcats 102, Hooisers 90”

A.P. (artist formerly TJ21) Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 12:52 AM

Yeah,people said nobody would beat kentucky until Vanderbilt did. This game was sloppy, overofficiated, and kentucky was just hot from the field. Syracuse can beat Kentucky. UNC and Kansas can beat UK. Hell, baylor may be able to best them if Perry Jones shows up. Kentucky is a very good team but they aren’t an all-time juggernaut. People said nobody was beating the John Wall-Demarcus Cousins UK team but they lost. This team is vulnerable against teams with very good guard play. If Indiana had a bigger, more competent PG, this game would have been much different.

Both teams tonight were very good offensively but the game was not fun to watch. The officials were bullshit and called way too many cheap fouls on both teams.

Wally's World Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 12:55 AM

Indiana plays 0 defense. Hasn’t all year. Kentucky is definitely the odds on favorite. But, they can be beaten. KY probably doesn’t want to see Florida again. It’s tough to beat a team that you’ve played a bunch during the year.

Vandy showed the way. IU just doesn’t have the horses.

A.P. (artist formerly TJ21) Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 12:57 AM

Your statement about nobody beating them will only be true if they shoot like this the rest of the way.

A.P. (artist formerly TJ21) Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 12:58 AM

Wally, don’t infuse facts into the assumptions!

Matty_Cam Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 1:09 AM

This game was sloppy

192 total points and only 14 combined turnovers beg to differ. Indiana could not have played any better. Anthony Davis basically only played one half. And they Kentucky still won by 12. Yes, they can be beat… But it’s going to take a herculean effort to do so.

CARCAR Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 1:10 AM

The Wall-Cousins team couldn’t shoot, the Knight-Harrellson team wasn’t very talented in retrospect, but this year’s team has unbelievable talent to go along with 3 dead-eye shooters. Not saying they are a lock by any stretch but if they go on to win this thing, history will look very favorably on Kentucky

CARCAR Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 1:12 AM

In my opinion, if Kentucky wins. They will go down as the best team since the turn of the century.

A.P. (artist formerly TJ21) Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 1:17 AM

The UNC title team with Hansbrough would beatdown this Kentucky team. Thats the best college team since the early 90s UNLV squad.

Matty_Cam Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 1:24 AM

The UNC title team with Hansbrough would beatdown this Kentucky team.

I’m not so sure…

Lawson > Teague
Lamb and Danny Green = push
Kidd-Gilchrist > Ellington
Jones and Deon Thompson = push
And you really think Hansbrough is that much better than Davis?

CARCAR Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 1:25 AM

Not to mention Miller off the bench, and Davis would eat Hansbrough alive.

kazzythekid Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 7:51 AM

This game was sloppy

You must have been trying to post in the UNC-Ohio thread, because this may have been the least sloppy game of the tourney so far. If Oladipo doesn’t foul out, then maybe the Hoosiers keep it closer, but I doubt it. I hope the Wiz don’t get screwed in the draft lottery, and can get either Davis or MKG. Barnes looks like a bust IMO.

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! Says:
March 24th, 2012 at 9:18 AM