Not much went Kentucky’s way during Thursday night’s exhibition loss to Georgetown, but there’s one stat (or two, technically) in particular that will eat at head coach Mark Pope in the days to come.
The assist-to-turnover ratio. Kentucky finished with 15 turnovers and just 14 assists against the Hoyas.
“For me, that was the indicator of the game for us,” Pope said postgame.
Last season, Pope’s first as Kentucky’s coach, the Wildcats finished with eight games where they had more turnovers than assists. UK went 0-8 in those contests. While Thursday night was only an exhibition that won’t count in the record books, that trend is not being kind to UK.