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1. People also are overlooking that Swopshire's retaliation was a closed fist punch (albeit a weak one). Swopshire gave a knee to the head, Cousins gave a forearm to the dome, Swopshire gave a closed fist punch to the stomach. If Cousins deserved an ejection...Swopshire deserved it more for both starting the tussel and giving the final blow.

2. UL played excellent defense.. if they can duplicate the defensive effort in the Big East they can all cause all sorts of problems, especially with the B-East not having the dangerous outside shooting teams that they usually have.

3. For as much credit as UL deserves for their gritty effort to come back and make it competitive...Kentucky also equally hurt themselves with POOR free throw shooting, touch foulson the perimeter to send UL to the line, and costly turnovers.

4. What this game came down to was three things:

A) UK's stars won the game. Wall made plays. Cousins and Patterson made Samuels looks softer than the Snuggles Drier Sheet Bear, and Bledsoe made clutch plays and free throws.

B) UL dug too deep of a hole early with their poor shot selection and shooting. They made a valiant effort, but the energy expanded to get back into the game was too much.

C) Both teams took about 10 minutes to "play their game". They were playing off of emotion and UK was fortunate to be the beneficiary early on due to superior talent.

5. UK is the deeper, more talented, and more explosive team. I think on any given night, on any given court, UK is consistently 7-12 points better.