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Player grades: Louisville basketball outmuscled by Kentucky

Kentucky adds another win to their dominant record against Louisville basketball since John Calipari joined the program.

The Cats jumped out to a quick lead, and never looked back on Saturday. After a back-and-forth first few minutes where both teams played very free-flowing on offense, Kentucky blew things open with an 11-0 run that stretched their lead from 20-17 to 31-17.

In that stretch in the first half, UK outmuscled, outworked, and out-shot the Cards. Louisville settled for quick, contested shots, and Kentucky capitalized.

UK went into halftime with an 8-point lead. That lead was cut to 6 with a quick Christen Cunningham mid-range jumper on the first posession of the second half.