Another day, another Kentucky Wildcat victory at home. For the second-straight game, they’ve done it without their two starting guards. Both Sahvir Wheeler and Tyty Washington missed Wednesday night’s action vs. LSU with injuries. In the end it didn’t matter, though, with the Kentucky Wildcats squeezing past the LSU Tigers by a score of 71-66.
Kentucky missed Washington and Wheeler early on, as they were unable to defend the quickness of LSU’s Xavier Pinson. LSU, one of the conference’s worst three-point shooting teams, also caught fire (surprise!) from downtown early on in the contest. However, head coach John Calipari and his team quickly adjusted their defense to pull ahead and keep their home game winning streak alive going into the their final home game next week vs.