Kentucky beat NC Central by 36 points tonight, 103-67, but you wouldn’t know it from Mark Pope’s postgame press conference. Pope looked like he did after losses, somber and hoarse, but underneath that was anger. Neither Jaland Lowe nor Kam Williams played in the first half, one day after fans at the BBN United practice saw them running stairs. After a turnover in the first half, Brandon Garrison did not play in the second.
“We just have a standard we have to live up to, and we’re not, and we have to,” Pope said when asked if he was sending a message to some of his players tonight.