Welcome, everyone. It is the KSR Preach Show. It's Monday, February 23rd. I'm Shannon the dude.

I'm in the Louisville studio being joined by Billy Rutledge. He's over in Lexington. And you can give us a call on the Clark's PubP and Shop phone line at 859-2-807. That's 859-2-80-cats.

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Billy yesterday, I don't know if it snowed at all in Lexington, but I looked outside.

It was snowing in Louisville.

I thought we were done with winter last week when it got up into like the 60s. I think one day it was like 70. Yesterday it was snowing again. I guess the groundhog was right. We really do have six more weeks of winter. Good morning, Shannon. You're right. Winter is still here, but it's not cold anymore. I don't know. After going through that ice for two weeks or so, it's just,

I'm numb to it all. It's not cold anymore. It's 20 degrees here. It's cold to be. No, it was, I mean, not after the week or two that we just went through with the ice. But yeah, the snow is still here, dude, and, you know, we're inching closer to the NCAA tournament time if Kentucky he gets to partake in that this year. Yeah, it's still an F right now.

Hopefully it should be fun. we're inching closer to the NCAA tournament time if Kentucky gets to partake in that this year.

Yeah, it's still an F right now.

Hopefully it should be fun.

Still an if, 17 and 10.

You still got some tough games coming up, although tomorrow night should be the game that if you're going to win one left on the schedule, this is the one.

I say that.

South Carolina, I believe, scored 97 points over the weekend and beat Mississippi State at home. So nothing's a guarantee, especially when you go on the road in the SEC. But things aren't trending too well for the catch right now. That's three in a row. They lose on Saturday at Auburn, 75, 74. That's the first time they've lost three straight, Billy, since the COVID team, the 9 and 16 team. Oh, wow. Didn't know that. So, like, anytime we were talking about records here in the last couple of weeks, seems like we're always talking about, you know, bad records, things that go back to the Gillespie era, or in this case, I guess, the Cal era, but three straight losses, and it's not going to get a whole lot easier.

Like I said, South Carolina tomorrow night on the road should be a win.

You never know.

And then you've got three other games still that are crucial for your tournament hopes.

We shouldn't be here.

No.

Kentucky should not be in this spot as we close up February.

And that's probably the most frustrating part, right?

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