Kentucky Dropped A Heartbreaker To Missouri; How Bad Does This Get? | Sources Say

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Missouri was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Kentucky, a nightmarish season for Mark Pope and the Wildcats that doesn’t appear to be getting better anytime soon. How do you give up a 15-2 run to end the game and choke away an eight-point lead in the final segment to earn a Quad 3 loss? Unfortunately, that’s what we have to talk about tonight on Sources Say. The irony is we talked about this result as something we wouldn’t even address, knowing what it means in a truly must-win scenario for a program struggling to keep its head above water. We joked that falling to the Tigers would mean NCAA Tournament chances take a serious hit with no obvious path to fixing things — because if you lose to Mizzou at home, why wouldn’t you lose to all of the other comparable mediocre competition on the schedule? This was thought to be a winning stretch where you could build some momentum. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome in to the Sources Say podcast, your go to Kentucky Basketball podcast on the KSR podcast network
0:13.3	presented by our best friends at parlor pizza. Shout out to parlor pizza and all that is good
0:19.4	in the world that they provide, they are the absolute
0:22.1	best. And they're the only things keeping me up in, up in spry today. Stephen Beak will have
0:28.8	Sean Smith joining us here in just a moment. But until then, we got a lot to talk about.
0:33.9	We have a lot of frustrating things to talk about. And a lot to like decide and decipher
0:41.3	and sift through to get to an answer that I think fans are dying to know. Will this team make
0:49.5	the NCAA tournament, Stephen Peek? How are you waking up this morning? Because I did not sleep very
0:55.8	well. And I did not like, I didn't wake up feeling on the right side of the bed this morning.
1:02.4	Everything just kind of still feels off 24 hours later after the fact. Yeah, that's the how I feel
1:08.7	waking up after a loss. I wake up and I go, man, I'm, I'm in a bad mood. Why do I not? Oh yeah, that's how I feel waking up after a loss. I wake up and I go, man, I'm in a bad mood.
1:12.7	Why do I not?
1:13.6	Oh, yeah, that's right.
1:15.4	Because the expectations I had for this basketball team are not going to happen.
1:20.3	They're not really even going to come particularly close.
1:24.1	And now you raised the question at the start of the show.
1:27.0	Can they make the tournament?
1:28.3	I cannot believe this is where we are.
1:31.4	I'm just somebody like, wake me up.
1:34.0	Wake me up.
1:34.5	I'm in a nightmare.
1:35.4	This cannot be happening.
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