Kentucky Upsets Tennessee in Knoxville on Tuesday Night

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00:00In a top-15 tilt last night in Knoxville, a team ranked 12th in the country, winning

00:06outright as a double-digit underdog on the road.

00:10That would be number 12 Kentucky against number 8 Tennessee.

00:14The Cats go into Knoxville and win 78-73, again, outright as a 10.5-point underdog,

00:22a total that was dropping throughout the day.

00:25Never stood a chance with Mark Pope's Kentucky Wildcats, over 145-and-a-half.

00:31A monumental quad one and road victory for Kentucky, and some more questions to answer

00:38for Rick Barnes of the Volunteers.

00:41There is a lot of questions, but also there is some statistical anomalies from this game

00:44that you can certainly dig through.

00:46Kentucky, we understand, has a very good offense and not-so-great defense, because it's a product

00:50of playing high tempo and getting into higher-scoring games.

00:52You hold Tennessee to 73 points, that's fantastic, you score 78, you win.

00:56But look at this, though.

00:57Kentucky only shot 50 times from the field.

00:59Tennessee?

01:0072 times.

01:01They had 22 more looks at the basket and lost by 5 points.

01:06How do you offset that?

01:07Well, shoot 50% from the floor on the road against an elite defensive team.

01:11Kentucky did that.

01:12Three-point range.

01:13Shoot 50% from the floor, 12 of 24.

01:16That's how you hold them off.

01:17And even though, too, Kentucky was like, hey, we took advantage of every opportunity.

01:21They're only 66% as a team from the free-throw line.

01:23So there were some mistakes that were made, but it just goes to show you the ultimate

01:27equalizer sometimes is bury your three-point shots and you'll do damage.

01:31As we said, 50% here for UK, 25% for the Tennessee Volunteers.

01:36But if you would have shown me that box where it said one team shoots 22 more times, my

01:39goodness, they probably hammered them.

01:41What a great win for Kentucky that maybe they didn't deserve on the score sheet, but on

01:45the court, they absolutely did.