Imagine celebrating Thanksgiving with an ice cream social, then swimming at the Woodland Park pool before shooting off fireworks.
Kentucky’s 77-62 victory over Tennessee State on Friday approached that kind of oddity.
Tennessee State, one of the early season’s most prolific three-point shooting teams, mostly kept its three-point shooters holstered. This despite UK’s last two opponents – VMI and Winthrop – making 32 of 66 three-point shots.
Tennessee State, which averaged the fifth-most three-pointers made in Division I (12.2 per game), had taken only six midway through the second half and finished with a season-low 16 attempts.