John Calipari was pleased with his team’s fight in the second half. They simply dug a hole too deep to get out of in the final 20 minutes. They got into that mess with a terrible run of defense in the first half and John Calipari rests some of the blame on one unnamed player’s shoulders.
“We have a couple guys that are not playing where they need to play — fight, competitive spirit, come up with balls, toughness, rebounding and what happened in the first half, we had a guy that broke off the gameplan,” Calipari said.