Welcome, everyone. It is the local toy dealers, Kentucky, KSR post-game show. The Cats lose in Tuscaloosa by double digits. Once again, 89 to 74.

Fourth time, Mark Pope has played Nate Oates since he's been in Lexington, and all four games have been double-digit losses where Kentucky has rarely had a chance to compete.

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I want to go over a little bit about the game and then talk about what we just heard

right before I came on.

Let's start with the game.

You know, the cats in the first half were just bad. And it's been

this way, essentially, every first half against Alabama. And honestly, it's been this way in the first

half in virtually all of the good games we've had this year, right? I mean, we've been down in the first

half double digits, and now

six of our seven games against power conference teams. I mean, I want you to think about that

for a second. We've played seven power conference teams. Now, let me acknowledge those are seven

good power conference teams, all in the top 25, or Indiana is just outside of the top 25.

But if you're going to the tournament and you want to play in the NCAA tournament, these are the teams you have to play.

And we've been down double digits in the first half in six of those seven games.

And, you know, it sort of doesn't matter what happens after that.

We ended up, I think, winning the second half by one point.

But it doesn't really matter because you have played yourself out of these games.

In one of those six games, we came back and won against St. John's.

But otherwise, these have been,

you're just down so much that, like, your entire game is trying to come back. And this is a team

that because they did not recruit shooting, which was our worry from the beginning of the season,

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