catmandoo
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posted 01-18-2014 11:08 AM
We need to realize this game isn't going to be easy and play hard from the opening tip to the final whistle.
The entire University of Kentucky basketball team needs a win today against Tennessee to flush the feeling of losing Tuesday night’s game at Arkansas on a buzzer-beating dunk in overtime, but sophomores Willie Cauley-Stein and Alex Poythress are eager to erase an older, lingering disappointment.
The last time the Wildcats and Volunteers met was Feb. 16, 2013, and UK was playing its first game without injured star Nerlens Noel. The team needed Cauley-Stein and Poythress to help take up the slack, but they couldn’t. The duo combined for just six points and four rebounds before both fouled out.
Tennessee smashed the Wildcats 88-58, the largest losing margin in John Calipari’s five seasons as coach.
“We owe them one,” Poythress said Friday. “They came and embarrassed us a little bit.”
Fortunately for 13th-ranked UK (12-4, 2-1 Southeastern Conference), Poythress is playing perhaps the best basketball of his career lately, and Cauley-Stein, who has blossomed this season, is motivated by an off night in Arkansas. After calling the 7-foot center a “nonfactor” against the Razorbacks, Calipari said Cauley-Stein was a man on fire in Thursday’s practice.
“He was unbelievable,” Calipari said. “He knows. He’s taken responsibility. He owned it. ‘Now I’ve got to change it.’ And that’s where you grow.”
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