Welcome in to the local Toyota Dealer's KSR postgame show. I am Drew Franklin.

Filling in for Matt Jones, who if you heard KSR this morning, does not have a voice.

He tried to get through two hours. Actually made it through two hours of our morning show,

but had to hang it up before the pregame show and post game show, but that's all right.

I'm happy to fill in. And as always, Billy R. Sports is here producing this show. Billy, who lives in this studio like a troll. He's just here at all times. I think he sleeps under this table. You've been here all day. Billy, it's good to see you tonight after Kentucky gets a win, snaps out of the little bit of a losing skid, winning 726 Columbia. Kentucky went in as a about a six and a half

point favorite. Expectations to beat South Carolina, one of the worst teams in the conference.

They had just come off a seven game losing streak before stealing a win against Mississippi State

last Saturday. You know, if we really, really, really wanted to be picky, we wish Kentucky could have gone down there and blown them out. Just been a fun night from start to finish, but that was not the case. South Carolina started out kind of hot, hit four or three-pointers early. It looks kind of like the Georgia and Florida game where you have a team not known for shooting three as well, giving them a little too much cushion, making them pay.

They had four of eight as Kentucky struggled from the field. Kentucky went one of seven from three early on.

South Carolina led 12-5, led around 15, 13, led for about half of the first half.

And then Kentucky went on a big 10-0 run highlighted by Denzel Aberdeen hitting

back-to-back three-pointers forcing South Carolina to call a timeout. It was mostly

cats from there. They'd get up seven. South Carolina would crawl back, a little bit of a back-and-forth,

but never truly felt threatened and they pulled away in the end to win big.

Aberdeen with 19 points.

He's your star of the game.

Not only to hit those two threes, he had four in the game, but they all seemed timely,

had a lot of big buckets.

Otega Oway, actually a quiet game.

A 30-game streak of double-digit scoring came to an end tonight.

Otega with eight points on three of 13 shooting. Aberdeen was helped out in scoring by Mo Diabate off the bench with 12. Big second half on him. We'll be bragging on Mo D with Aberdeen. Colin Chandler got up to 10 with the late three. That was important. And my guy, Yelovich, who I predicted as the MVP with 11, kind of a mixed bag from Yellovich, some highs and lows. But Billy R. Sports, that was my long-winded quick, you know, just, what do they call it? Like the view from however many feet. That was my quick analysis. How do you feel about just getting out of that three-game losing funk and getting a win? I don't care if it was against a team that's not very good.

Well, it's good to see you. Thanks for coming in studio and visiting my troll house here. I met that in a polite, loving way. I'm excited for an evening with Drew Franklin, even though some might get that on Thursday night as well in Madisonville. More on that later. But yeah, man, they had to win. It was must-win. They snapped the three-game losing streak.

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