#1 KENTUCKY ROUTS #5 KANSAS

The Platoon strategy worked, the man-to-man defense was superb and the Kentucky Wildcats thumped the #5 Kansas Jayhaws 72-40 in the Champions Classic. “We kind of bum-rushed them a little bit and every time they looked there were more tanks coming over the hill,” Calipari said. “It wasn’t substitutes, it was reinforcements. It kind of gets to you a little bit. ” I expected Kentucky to win, but to beat a top 5 team by 32 points, that’s unbelievable to me.Kansas made only 11 baskets in what was a complete beatdown.”We never once did anything that resembled a team offense at all and I hope they were the primary reason why,” Self said after sipping a glass of water and joking that he needed a stronger drink to help ease the pain. “I knew that we haven’t practiced well or done some things real well, but I didn’t think it would be like this. No matter how bad we shot it the first half we actually proved that we could shoot it a heck of a lot worse in the second.”