Better start? More toughness? Stingier defense?
How about a performance that would have given NBA All-Stars a run for their money?
John Calipari asked for all three after his team’s first exhibition game against Transylvania. What he got Monday night in the final tune-up before the regular season was a performance that may never be matched again at Kentucky.
Ever.
The Wildcats not only answered the call of their head coach, they picked up the telephone, threw it against the wall and smashed it with a baseball bat. Playing like they had lost by 20 to Transy, UK beat Morehouse into submission Monday night, walloping the Maroon Tigers 125-40 in front of 20,194 fans at Rupp Arena.
“We were better,” Coach Cal said so nonchalantly you would have thought he was joking. “That’s what I was looking for.”
The 85-point win was the largest margin of victory in an exhibition game, shattering the previous record of 71 points in a 119-48 smacking of China in 1982.
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