[Strikeout King]

If you missed the first hour of today’s show or if you’re going to listen later on podcast (this is a spoiler), you missed another chapter of the Perplexing Leadership of Billy Gillispie. After talking with Matt about Derrick Jasper’s relationship with Clyde and discussing their new relationship in Lubbock, Mark said that during Gillispie’s first year, he planned to take only the starting five to Gainesville. At the time, the Cats were 7-8 and starting Ramon Harris and Mark Coury, along with Patrick Patterson, Ramel Bradley and Joe Crawford.


After telling the players repeatedly that they would not travel to Gainesville, a group of reserves left to go eat lunch. After a while, assistant coach Jeremy Cox came running in and frantically told them they had a plane to catch. The guys rushed back to the rest of the team at which point Gillispie told the reserves that he didn’t mean any of that stuff and wasn’t sure why he kept telling them that he wasn’t taking them to Florida.


Kentucky went on to lose in overtime, 81-70. The bench accounted combined to shoot 4-12 for 12 points (Meeks - 5, Stevenson - 4, Jasper - 3).






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