Can Kentucky Beat Tennessee a Third Time? Insightful Analysis

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00:00So, uh, you talk about Tennessee and Kentucky, Kentucky's beat him twice.

00:05And uh, you know, I played a team the other night in my title game that we beat twice

00:10and had to beat him a third time that we did.

00:12Do you think Kentucky can beat Tennessee a third time?

00:15Everyone said I couldn't win three against this team, but we did.

00:18Do you think Kentucky can do it?

00:20The fascinating thing about this, Scott, is that Kentucky did it twice at much less than

00:26full strength, much, much farther away from full strength than they are now.

00:29Look, Jackson Robinson's not coming back.

00:32He's gone for the year.

00:33So they're not at full strength, full strength, but they're closer than they were in either

00:37of the first two and they still got it done.

00:39And I think that makes it really interesting.

00:42The first time around Lamont Butler did not play at all.

00:44Andrew Card played a minute and that was the end of his night.

00:48The second time around, Card was limited and so was Butler.

00:52And now they both, at least entering the game, are as close to health as we're going to see

00:57them.

00:58Lamont Butler was able to go 30 plus minutes on the weekend and produce excellent numbers

01:02across the board.

01:03Card didn't have such great numbers, but he was obviously a contributor or Mark Pope wouldn't

01:07have played him 30 plus minutes.

01:09So it's a different team this time.

01:12And as it was the time before, as it was the time before.

01:15And I don't think I've ever seen that, Scott.

01:17I don't think I've ever seen where two teams played three times and one of them had to

01:21play a different opponent each time.

01:24So you wrote about Cooper Flagg today and do you think they'll handle Arizona?

01:28And how do you think Cal will do against Texas Tech?

01:31Yeah, I'm really proud of that story, Scott.

01:34And I hope people give it a read, comparing Carmelo Anthony's run in 2003 to what Cooper

01:39faces now.

01:42It's going to be a challenge.

01:43Arizona has excellent perimeter play.

01:46Caleb Love is playing the best basketball of his career.

01:49And that includes what happened in 2022.

01:53So it'll be hard, but I think they'll get through.

01:54And then I can't wait to see what Arkansas does defensively against Texas Tech.

01:59I think they'll bother them.

02:01Do they have enough offense on the hog side to get it done?