Mark Pope didn’t speak long about Kentucky’s 96-88 loss to Louisville. To him, there was really only one story, and that was the discrepancy between the teams’ assist-to-turnover ratios. It was issue number one on a disappointing night for the program, one which Pope said was unacceptable.
“We played extremely poorly, and credit Louisville for that. We played extremely poorly, but we do have a competitive group, and we had some interesting new vibe lineups for us in the second half, trying to respond to some things. And I thought I was proud of the guys for competing, but that’s not the standard we have at Kentucky.