While Kentucky did some good things offensively against Purdue, they didn’t beat the Boilermakers by 41 because of their hot hand. It was the fact that they rose to the occasion yet again defensively, holding Purdue to just 35 points on 20% shooting from the field.
When you hold a team to 35 points, there isn’t a whole lot to complain about. However, it did look like Kentucky’s defense struggled at times because the communication was off. Kenny Brooks thought that was the case too.
“You’re exactly right,” he said when KSR asked about the communication issues in his postgame press conference.