Welcome in to the Central Kentucky Select Toyota Dealer's postgame show.

Drew Franklin here filling in for Matt Jones on night one of Kentucky basketball's 25-26 season.

I'm in the downtown Lexington studio with our dear friend, Billy R. Sports, who just loves sitting in the studio during games.

Billy, you've been here all day, and it's so good to see you looking well-rested, energized over there. It's just nice to see another human being, Drew, so I appreciate you and whoever's hosting the post game actually coming in to do it with me today. It's good to be here. I was at the game. Did the rapid reaction on the sidewalk. Walked right down to the studio after Kentucky handled its business against Nichols,

the Colonels, not Nichols State.

We're just going Nichols, Billy.

7751, not only the first game of the season, but the first game of the BB& United

Tipoff Classic presented by Kentucky Tourism.

If I'm the only person that's going to get excited about that, that's fine, but I'm going to

keep pushing that message because it's a big four-team, three-game multi-team event to start the season. And Kentucky got it started by beating Nichols, 77 to 51. It was a tail of two halves, and that's putting it lightly. First half, a brutal run for the Wildcats. Second half, they got it going and pulled away late. We're going to be here for the next hour, breaking down that game, the highs, the lows. We want to hear from you 859-2-2-8-7. Call us throughout the night. Want to hear your favorite moments of the game, not favorite moments of the game, concerns moving

forward, predictions for the season, maybe you were there. You can talk about the crowd.

It wasn't the crowd's best effort, but it was a good start to the season, Kentucky, getting the win.

I will say before we go on and get into the basketball, I have to mention the tragic accident

that happened in Louisville shortly before the game

tipped off. A UPS cargo plane crashed just a horrific scene with videos and photos going around.

I think, Billion, you can correct me. You've been here getting the news. I've been at Rupp.

But at least four people were killed, 11 injured.

Three, actually. Three people. Excuse me.

What I've seen. Oh, three, three. Okay. But three, 11 injured. It was an MD11 aircraft heading for Honolulu, so it was packed with a ton of fuel, just an unbelievable scene there. So we're thinking about everyone, praying for everyone involved with this tragedy. News is still coming. Did you say that they didn't carry the game? They're basically just doing news. Uh, WHA, yes, we were doing a lot of news updates, keeping people abreast. So, um, you know, thinking about everybody involved and, uh, you know, the images are striking out of that. Um, so wishing the best. Yes. And I just, I had to mention that before we get into a fun night of basketball, as Kentucky got that win, because win because just a tragic situation in Louisville

and more will be coming out on that throughout the night as they continue the investigation going.

But that's what we know for now. I want to acknowledge it and send our thoughts and prayers out

to everyone there. There's not a good way to transition into basketball. So I'll just do it.

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