College basketball in late February is full of resurrections. Some are Lazarus. Some just sit up for a night and go back to sleep.
Mark Pope waited until he stepped away from the microphones, which is the modern equivalent of stepping behind the curtain, except the curtain has ears.
Blue Cain scored 20 points, Jeremiah Wilkinson added 19 points off the bench and Georgia beat Kentucky 86-78 on Tuesday night for its first win at Rupp Arena since 2009.
Xaivian Lee scored 22 points, Urban Klavzar added 19 and No. 14 Florida beat 25th-ranked Kentucky 92-83 Saturday for its 10th victory in its last 11 outings.
At the beginning of the season, if you had Kentucky becoming the SEC’s most tough-minded, elbows-out, defense-first outfit, where were you?
Oweh scores 20 of his 23 points in 2nd half, leads Kentucky to 5th straight win, 72-63 over Ole Miss
Otega Oweh, without a field goal in the first half, scored 20 of his 23 points after the break and Kentucky beat Mississippi 72-63 on Saturday for the Wildcats' fifth straight win.
Denzel Aberdeen scored 22 points, 18 in the second half, and Kentucky rallied from a 17-point first-half deficit to knock off No. 24 Tennessee, 80-78, on Saturday.
The wedge isn’t a side dish -- but Pope wants his players to be as at home with it as grits, or biscuits and butter.