When you zoom out, Kentucky basketball and Indiana look like mirror images. Indiana scores 88.2 points per game, Kentucky scores 85.5. Both shoot around 50 percent from the field and both guard well enough to sit in the mid-60s in points allowed.
But when you dig a little deeper, a few numbers jump off the page. If this game lives up to the hype, these are the pressure points that will tell the story.
The key numbers that will define Kentucky basketball vs Indiana
The first is passing. Kentucky averages 19.1 assists per game, which is good enough to sit inside the top 15 nationally, and the Cats’ assist-to-turnover ratio has been one of the cleanest in the country.