Basketball sure is fun when it looks like that.
It didn’t start as pretty as it ended, but Kentucky finally picked up a ranked win for the first time this season, the Wildcats beating Rick Pitino and St. John’s in Atlanta 78-66. Mark Pope got the better of his old coach in this one, but not without the help of two players who joined him in the postgame press conference. Jaland Lowe and Jayden Quaintance were spectacular in the second half for UK, combining to be a +37 in the box score after halftime.