Injuries to 3 of their top 6 players and the $22 million they spent was not money well spent. Most of these players do not fit Pope's coaching style he likes 3 point shooting and Kentucky only has a couple of guys that can shoot decent from 3 and none are lights out shooters like Koby Brea was last year. Kentucky was so bad on D last year despite having an elite offense Pope decided to get "athletes over shooting" and that result has been better D but not good for the offense as Kentucky ranks in the 30s in both on kenpom.
Florida despite having 6 losses is actually ranked by barttorvik as the #1 team in the nation in the past month over teams like Arizona, Michigan, Duke and UCONN. They struggled early in the year taking too many 3s as they are not a good 3 point shooting team but they have the best frontline in the country with 3 studs and have focused more on D lately and have just crushed everyone after an early season upset losses to Missouri and Auburn.
Florida will likely crush Kentucky as well as Kentucky is a round of 32 ceiling type team this year and with their closing schedule being 5 quad 1 games out of their last 7 which includes 2 games vs Florida, at Texas A&M, at Auburn and home vs Vandy they could end the season poorly and fall down to a 7/8 seed range.
Florida is -980 on the moneyline
I expect a double digit loss today for sure hope I am wrong.
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