Kentucky basketball got the win, got the points, and eventually got the game to look how it was supposed to look.
It just took a minute.
This had all the markings of a 1 p.m. Tuesday tip right before Christmas Eve — a slow start, weird rhythm, and an underdog that refused to play the “polite buy-game” role. Bellarmine hung around long enough to make Kentucky actually earn it, but once the Wildcats started making threes in bunches, the math stopped working for the Knights.
Kentucky pulled away for a 99-85 win behind a flamethrower performance from Kam Williams and a brutally efficient afternoon from Mouhamed Dioubate.