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Matt Painter Says Kentucky Loss ‘Could Have Been Worse’

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Purdue head coach Matt Painter admitted that last night’s loss at Kentucky could have been by a bigger margin.

“This could’ve been worse,” Painter said. “They could’ve played those guys [the starters] and he [Mark Pope] was trying to get a lot of people in there.”

Check out his comments:

Here’s a transcript from UK Athletics:

On watching film before the game and the size of Kentucky…
“We do not do a lot of preparation, as you can tell, for these games. More than anything, I just
thought they embraced the physicality of the game.