Welcome, everyone. It is the local toy dealers KSR postgame show. Kentucky Falls in Rupp Arena to Alabama

102 to 97. Their first home loss of the year and their first loss against the top 15 team after

five victories. You can give a shout 859-280-2287. A lot of you are driving back home or heading wherever you are, so feel free to give me a shout.

The cats, you know, scored 97 points and still lose, really the first time this year where they've had a game where they've played pretty well offensively and still were not able

to get the victory.

And the other games where Kentucky's lost, their point total has been in the 60s.

This one was 97 and still a loss.

And I thought honestly the better team today won.

Alabama, a couple things that I thought were crucial to the game

ended up playing out.

Before the game, if you were listening yesterday, we said basically two things were

important.

One was Grant Nelson because I think the one consistent thing we've seen this year is teams that have a guy at the

four, sometimes at the three, but really at the four, who is versatile, can shoot from outside

and go to the basket. They really give us a hard time. Even going back to Cooper Flagg to Asa Newell

at Georgia, the two guys at Florida that got all those

rebounds, and then again, Grant Nelson here today.

And he had a great first half, 19 points in the first half, 26 points in the game.

He was a real issue for us.

And I thought was really the reason Alabama was ahead at

halftime and a half where Kentucky may have even outplayed Alabama, but just couldn't really do

anything with Grant Nelson. And then the second thing, and it sounds very simplistic, but

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