It was a tale of two halves for Kentucky in the opener vs. Nicholls, struggling to get much of anything going offensively in the first 20 minutes before ramping things up in the final 20. Defense was a massive improvement from what we saw in the exhibition loss to Georgetown and 1-0 is 1-0, but plenty to work on and learn from after officially tipping off the season.
What did film reveal about the 77-51 win over the Colonels?
“A lot,” Mark Pope said Thursday. “It was kind of like — we were a little bit of a bumbling mess, which happens sometimes.