The House of Blue

UK - 85
Marshall - 45

UK 86
Marshall 64

UK - 84
MU - 58

UK 81 Herd 63

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UK 83

Marshall 60

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There is no problem changing predictions at any time prior to tip off, so long as you clearly flag the change with a new post so I will pick it up.

Less than 8 hours to tip off.

78-60, Looking forward to seeing Pittman. Great athlete, beat my Elliott Co team in the state semis as a senior on a great Holmes team.

UK scored its 33 points in a total of 37 possessions for the half, and MARSHALL scored its 24 points on a total of 37 possessions. Kentucky managed a 1 rebound advantage, 24-23, in the first half, and they managed a 2 rebound advantage on the offensive ends, 7-5. Kentucky converted its offensive rounding advantage into a 6-2 advantage in second chance points. MARSHALL had an offensive efficiency of 0.595 ppp on its 37 first chance possessions and 0.400 ppp for its 5 second chance possession. UK had 0.730 ppp on its 37 first chance possessions and 0.857 ppp on its 7 second chance possessions. With respect to the offensive rebounding, UK grabbed a low 28.0% of its misses as offensive rebounds while MARSHALL was able to convert an even lower 22.7% of its misses into bonus possessions with offensive rebounds.

UK hit well from the free throw line in this half, after making 6-8 (75.0%). MARSHALL finished 6-10 [60.0%] for the half. Field goal shooting for UK was 13-37 overall [35.1%] and 1-13 from long range [7.7%]. For MARSHALL, their field goal shooting from inside the arc was a strong 6-21 [28.6%] and from long range, MARSHALL hit 2-8 [25.0%].

The Cats committed 3 turnovers, one for every 12.3 possessions. The Cats forced 8 MARSHALL turnovers, one for every 4.6 possessions.

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