Losing hurts, even when nobody expects you to win.
On Thursday evening, Kentucky women’s basketball (10-12; 2-8 SEC) dropped its second game of the season to the No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks (22-0, 10-0 SEC) in an 87-69 loss. The ‘Cats had high hopes after defeating Missouri by 23 points on Sunday. Nonetheless, South Carolina proved to be too much for Kentucky.
Well, most of Kentucky. As usual, Robyn Benton lit up the scoreboard. The graduate student dropped 24 points while shooting 5-17 from the field and 1-4 from beyond the arc.