I know data-collecting is fun and the comeback efforts are great when they can pull them off, but this trend of Mark Pope coaching Kentucky teams to embarrassing first-half performances and praying for miracles down the stretch is not the way to go. It didn’t work against Louisville, and now, it doesn’t look like it’s gonna work against Michigan State, the Wildcats now down 44-27 at halftime and staring down the barrel of yet another inexcusable effort to open the season with the most expensive roster in the sport.
After an early back-and-forth that saw the Spartans shoot uncharacteristically well, their momentum carried while the Wildcats’ fell off a cliff, going into the half shooting just 27.