In a game Kentucky desperately needed to calm the noise, the Wildcats instead got booed off the floor by their own fans as Gonzaga ran them out of the gym early.
There are slow starts, there are bad nights, and then there’s what happened to Kentucky in Nashville against Gonzaga, and Mark Pope saw it coming.
In a building that was overwhelmingly pro-Kentucky, the Wildcats found themselves getting something you almost never see from Big Blue Nation at a neutral site: loud, sustained boos.