Instant analysis from No. 8 Kentucky’s 76-55 win over No. 22 Mississippi State:
How the game was won
PJ Washington scored 21 points, Tyler Herro 18 and Kentucky held Mississippi State — a 38.3 percent three-point-shooting team entering the game — to 3-of-20 treys as the Wildcats scored their fifth straight win.
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1. UK post players. PJ Washington gave UK offense (see above); Reid Travis (12 rebounds) worked the glass.