Matt Jones on Kentucky’s big win over #4 Tennessee in Knoxville

Kentucky sports radio host Matt Jones started off the postgame show talking about the Wildcats were able to leave Food City Arena with a win and what that win means for SEC and NCAA Tournament.

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Anyways it was the exact opposite of the game in Lexington in Lexington Tennessee got up early kept an 8 to 10o lead Until the End Dillingham G made a run at the end to give him a shot and then they still lost that’s how this game was in

Reverse we had an 8 to 14-point lead most of the second half they for the second time in two weeks had a really rough last minute trying to get the ball up the court but found a way to win and get a victory and it’s a big game it was

A big win not just winning at Tennessee but for seating purposes you go to the SEC tournament Kentucky will now be a two seed in the SEC tournament they’ll play Friday night at 7 o’clock against the winner of Texas A&M and Old Miss I mean you can’t ask for a better draw

Than that right Texas A&M or Old Miss in the first round uh Old Miss or A&M they get a so to get a two seed it’s just a huge win for Kentucky and it’s a culmination they’ve won what seven of the last eight could easily be

Eight in a row I think they are now pretty solidly uh a three seed in the uh NCA tournament I guess the problem is I’m not sure they’re going to get enough games against good teams in the NCA tournament or excuse me in the SEC tournament to get a two because the way

The NCA does it they just look to see who you played they don’t care how far you Advanced so we might not get games against good enough teams to get up to a two but I think we’re pretty solidly a three I think that means Kentucky will

Not have to go to the West Coast likely for the first and second round they’ll probably play in either Pittsburgh or Brooklyn just looking at how it plays out which would be a a way for Kentucky fans to go so you can’t ask for a better

Night and it was an awesome game I mean I was sitting here looking at the point total Kentucky scored 85 points and 8 three of the 85 were four guys I mean that’s that’s really unbelievable we had four guys basically scored all our points Reeves had 27

Shepard had 27 Edwards had 16 and dylian ham had 11 and even dillingham’s were kind of at the end for a while it was three guys at one point Kentucky had 60 points 54 of them were either reev Shepard or Edwards and those two guys the first two especially were

Unbelievable played great shot 10 of 15 combined from three-point land Reed Shepard was seven of 10 from three-point L and it was a great culmination to the year because I think those two dudes especially I mean listen Rob dillingham’s been good really good Edwards has had good moments Wagner but

To me this team is Reeves and Shepard and it’s two guys who are great Shooters smart players and in many ways kind of not your typical Cal player and Cal embracing them and by the end of the year them kind of being the centerpieces of the team and the team has just taken

Off if you go my friend Meer meaf took a lot of heat online and I was giving him a hard time because he said Reed Shepard was the most Duke esque player Cal Perry’s ever had and that’s like the worst insult you could give in Kentucky but I actually don’t think he’s crazy

Wrong re Rees if you think about it Reeves and Shephard are guys that we’ve seen like Mike shashy crush us with over the years guys that you look at and go why is this dude beating us and I say crush us he they don’t play us a lot but

Just Crush teams guys who make threes are annoying I bet if you didn’t if you didn’t cheer for Kentucky you would find Reeves and Shepard really frustrating to watch CA just when Tennessee would make a run one of those guys would hit a dagger I was really really impressed

With both we’ll start with Shepard I think this will he’ll this will be remembered kind of as his game he hit seven threes on the road which is awesome you know it kind of got overshadow a little bit got a huge block at the end uh on a three that you know I

Think would have cut it to two maybe he got a massive block had a couple turnovers but I thought he was excellent I mean it was it was a anytime Kentucky needed a shot he hit it and then Reeves this the season he’s had 10 Road

Games we I don’t know if we’ll ever see this again we played 10 Road games this year true Road games he had 15 or more every game and he had 20 or more eight of the 10 games that’s crazy and he now finishes his time at Kentucky as the highest points per game

Of the John caliper era Billy that’s gonna be a trivia question in 40 Years A lot of people are gonna get wrong Antonio Reeves is the answer to that question Antonio Antonio Reeves is gonna be the answer who had the most points per game of the caliper era it’s Antonio

Reeves and that’s pretty amazing and those two dudes were excellent I thought Justin Edwards was great especially in the first half hit three threes in the first half a lot of them kind of helping Kentucky separate in the lead and then as he seems to do all the time

Dillingham made big plays down the stretch we could talk about the last minute hopefully this is not something in March in the next four weeks we look back on and go why you know cuz this is now two games of the last four where we’ve kind of collapsed in the last

Minute but both times we’ve won um they got to find a way to get the ball up the court better you know you would think it’s seems like some reev Shepard even Dillingham Wagner like everybody gets panicked and I don’t understand why they’re all great free throw shooters

They all can take a foul and they have a timeout so I don’t understand why they get so rattled down the stretch but they did but again as happened against Miss Mississippi State they found a way to win I thought Ugo was very good look he didn’t score but Ugo I thought

Defensively was really really good he only got credited for four blocks but I in my mind I feel like he either blocked or altered a lot more shots than that I thought he was excellent big Z gave some decent minutes you know a Bradshaw only played two minutes which was a little

Crazy theier had some good minutes it wasn’t the best Trey Mitchell game I’m still kind of a little I don’t I know how he’s going to fit in when you get in the postseason but we know what this team is now and Cal knows what it is too this team is

Basically get Antonio Reeves and Reed Shepard shots and between Edwards Dillingham uh and Wagner two of those four guys are on the court and if they’re making plays you can’t guard Kentucky if you can put four guys out there making plays you can’t guard them you cannot guard them and then the bigs

Or theier have to play just good enough defense so that you don’t lose Dalton connect had 40 points he was awesome he was awesome tonight 40 points 14 of 29 shooting took 29 shots he had 40 points but they didn’t let the other guys beat him honestly besides Ziggler nobody else

Really played great and they were able to get the victory