Kentucky Wildcats Advance to Sweet 16, Topples Illinois 84-75

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00:00The three six split kentucky and illinois pregame total drs of 167 and a half for two really elite

00:07Offenses two very fast tempos in neither really sound on the defensive end of the floor kentucky having a better day 84

00:1575 the cats went outright as a two and a half point underdog knocking off the illini kentucky

00:22In year number one under mark pope advancing to the sweet 16

00:27You have a cow and Pope getting the sweet 16 crazy stuff there from coaches who now coached there from former coaches

00:33But let's focus on the Kentucky Wildcats who are the better team why because they won the basketball game

00:3784 to 75 but also understand this to like the fighting line

00:41I had so much talent all throughout the season you question them a little bit

00:44How they're gonna step up in the big games and?

00:46Neutral court sites like the game against Duke and Madison Square Garden that didn't show up

00:50Which really was a catalyst through the second half of their season and into the NCAA tournament, but Kentucky was just better

00:56And sometimes we'll get styles make fights

00:58We expected to get a lot of points technically we did but just not over the exorbitant number that the odds-maker

01:03It is set and also understand this oh way was my target yesterday over 18 and a half points you see finish with 15

01:08Oh dismissed foul trouble in the first half buried him only had two points at the break which then again shows you

01:14Kentucky still had the lead without their best player in the lineup and then finished him off in the second half

01:18Winning without your best players and not bringing your a game technically and still advancing that shows a lot here

01:24Kentucky's a fun team full of shot makers and without their best player still prevailed in the first half