Kentucky at Florida, An NCAA Tournament Play-in Game??

Most analysts had this basketball game as a play-in, play-out game for the NCAA Tournament.  Either way, both teams needed the win to keep their chances alive for the tourney.

Kentucky and Florida both came out flat in the first half.  If it wasn’t for Patrick Patterson, the Kentucky Wildcats would not have even been in the game at half-time.  Patrick Patterson finished the half with 14 points and 9 rebounds (7 of them were offensive rebounds).  Jodie Meeks only had 6 points on 3 of 10 shooting.  The score at the half was 29-22 in favor of the Florida Gators.

The second half was just a plain ole joke.  The Kentucky Wildcats really didn’t seem to care if they won or lost the game.  They racked up over 20+ turnovers total for the game.  Everyone for the Kentucky Wildcats was garbage for the second.  You could maybe make a case for Ramon Harris, but other than Harris, just garbage.

Yet again, no sense of urgency, not playing like the game is meaningful…just hurtful to be a UK fan right now with the way the basketball game was played.  I am not a fair weather UK basketball fan, but come on, how much more ridiculous could the University of Kentucky Wildcats be??  The only hope that they have to make the NCAA Tournament is to win the Southeastern Conference Tournament, yeah, good luck with that!  They can’t even seem to win one game, much less, 3 or 4 in a row!!

If anyone is wondering:
Patterson finished with 16 points and 13 rebounds
Meeks finished with 15 points and 5 rebounds
Ramon Harris had 14 points
Perry Stevenson had 4 points and Galloway/Stewart both finished with 2 points

That was it!  That was the only Wildcats scoring for the whole basketball game!  The final score of the game was 60-53 in favor of the Florida Gators.

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