When Kentucky and Louisville take the court you know it’s going to be a great game. Today’s match up was no different. It was a great game but the Wildcats come out with a huge victory over the Cards 78-63.
This game came with several surprises with a career high double-double play from big man Josh Harrellson had 23 points and 14 rebounds. This was a huge deal as he normal averages about 5 points per game and only scored 28 total points last season. He has really stepped up into this leadership role on this team as he is the only senior on the roster and is the only big man with big man Enes Kanter being ruled ineligible to play by the NCAA.
As it was last season this team is lead by a group of incredible freshmen talent which has two of the teams leading scorers. They showed up to play against the Cards as Brandon Knight had an outstanding game scoring 25 points and Terrence Jones had 12 points, eight rebounds and six assist. This group of freshmen have really stepped up since the loss to North Carolina on ways of their game they are playing better defense as well as offense and are really looking good as they are about to enter SEC play.
As for Louisville they came out early hitting the three but that did not last as they went eight for 20 from three-point line. The Cards was out match on all levels they got beat in every category from field-goals to rebounds they just could not play with this Wildcat squad. They did get some good play out of Preston Knowles who scored 22 points which is above his season average of 15.2 points per game.
This game set a record attendance for the new KFC Yum! Center with 22,803 people. This is the first year of the new arena and it will play host to many more great games between the two rivals for years to come.
With the win over Louisville this puts Coach Calipari 2-0 in the battle of the bluegrass and puts the Wildcats 11-2 on the season.
The next match up for the Wildcats will be Monday against Penn in Rupp Arena at 7:00 PM EST.
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