[jetpilot]

Fire Cal.

Poignant, thought-provoking, salient,  substantive post.  You should be a sportswriter. 

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Look, our Cats have become a bit hard to watch, again. The question is... why?   We know they have the ability to play exciting, highly efficient offensive basketball. We've seen it for most of the season. They are in a bit of a rut right now. But it happens. Joe B. Hall's teams would usually have a stretch in January where they would struggle a bit. Kansas, the early season prohibitive #1 team is struggling. They lost AGAIN yesterday to the Iowa State Cyclones. The Jayhawks are just 4-3 in their conference. Top 10 teams, playing on the road are winning at a historically low percentage this season. Road conference wins are tough!

Our Cats were down by 10 points in the first half AND were up by 10 points late in the game. That's a twenty point turnaround on the road in Bud Walton Arena. Not bad!  Reeves had a nice game, Sheppard had a nice second half, and Mitchell had some big threes in the second half. Ugo went for 6/4/3 and was a serious inside presence on defense. He played the pick and roll very well and helped UK stretch their lead from one point to nine points with his excellent defense down low.  Bradshaw is becoming almost unplayable in crunch time because he simply can't defend. He is simply inept at defending the screen and roll. Ugly game in many respects but a 20 point turnaround on the road in Fayetteville for a tough grind it out win... I'll take it any day!

Can't sugar-coat it.  Arkansas is horrible, 1-5 in SEC with average loss of 21 points coming in, now 1-6. Lost at home by 32 to Auburn and 13 to SC and coming off a 26 point loss to Ole Miss. Unwatchable game.