Welcome everyone to the local Toyota dealers KSR postgame show.

What a night as the cats go down to Fayetteville and defeat the Arkansas Razorbacks 85 to 77.

Mark Pope gets his revenge on John Calipari.

We'll talk about it all tonight.

Give us a call 859-280-2287. And joining me tonight in the celebration is the only KSR personality to pick the cats to beat Arkansas today. That is Nick Rausch, who is live in living color in studio.

Feels good. It feels great. You know, there's a lot of haters. There's a lot of doubters out there. I never had a doubt, Billy. Not for a second. And, you know, a lot of people, they criticized me a year ago because I was the only one who picked Cal in Arkansas to come to Rup and win. Because here's the thing, I know Cal. I've seen this before. It's been 15 years of it, right?

Sometimes he does the thing where he gets to play the underdog card, us against the world,

no pressure on, and he gets his guys playing great. Well, what happens when the shoe's on the other

foot and he's playing a team that's got really no pressure on him at all.

They had nothing to lose down there at Bud Walton.

It just come off a tough, tough loss.

And Pope got his guys ready to go.

Cal, they were not ready to go.

And I could feel it.

I could feel it my plums.

We knew this was going to happen. All the doubters out there. I'm sure all of you are going to call in and say, I knew the whole time. Don't kid yourself. Everybody expected a loss, but not everybody's ball knower, Billy. And you brought in, you were smart. You hit me up today and said, I need a ball knower. And so you got me in the seat and we're, I'm so excited to talk about this. One of the biggest wins of the Pope era, one that Kentucky fans are going to be talking about for a long, long, long, long time. I think you're exactly right, Nick. I mean, this win exercised some demons. There's no doubt. I mean, it's not going to completely correct the season and some of the struggles that they've had, but this could be a launching point for what the rest of this year could be. We saw some great play again by Otega Owey. We saw Mark Pope get a technical. We saw a disgusting ref show that I'm sure we'll get maybe one or more call on, Nick. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. But it's good to see you, buddy. Thanks for joining me here. Yeah, I'm happy to. I just, I'm, oh, man, it's just, this is, this is going to be a great night. So please join us, 859, 280,000, 20287. We're going to be talking about this for the next hour. It's going to be so much fun. Pour yourself an ice cold beverage and

enjoy the spoils of war. Tonight's night, we get to relish. We get to enjoy. And let's do the

mat thing. Let's talk about the how it all happened, the anatomy of an upset. How do you go on the

road and beat a top 15 team when you're an underdog? Well, first things first, you need your best player to play like it. And Otega O'A did that tonight. In non-conference play, you could tell something was a little off with him, right? Like something was just, it wasn't really there. You know, it's like, okay, you got 16 points, but it took you 13 shots to get there. Otega was a little off. He's been awesome in SEC play, and he was awesome again tonight. 24 points. And the funny thing I thought Billy is, you know, Frayne for Shilla, he gets paid much more than we do to provide basketball analysis. And he's just, just put your head down and get to the rim. And it's like, it sounds really dumb, but just do it.

And Otega O.A, he did it over and over and over again. Here's another thing, too, if you want to go on the road and win, what do you need to do? Don't start slow. Can you? I can't believe it. No, I can't. every, I mean, it felt like the last month, they've just been walking out there like

Malik Thomas with a shovel going to work and digging themselves in a hole every single game. By the time that ESPN flipped it over, Kentucky was up 12 to 5. There was a lot of people who were just like, ah, I don't want to flip it over to ESPNU. This game is almost over hovering. I'm not going to miss anything. They're going to be down. Oh, no. Kentucky starts hot. They put game pressure on Arkansas. And when you're the underdog, you got to pop pressure in tense moments. And the other part, like basketball is a shot making game. It's very simple. The team that makes shots, they're going to win. Kentucky made 54% of their shots. More importantly, they outscored Arkansas by nine points at the three-point line. And they also made three more free throws. Not the best free-throar shooting night for either team, Mr. Rutledge. Well, you talk about this fast start. I mean, they started 10 of 11 from the field.

10 of 11. I mean, how bad was the start versus Vandy? I think they were 3 of 20 to start that game.

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