It certainly hasn’t been the slow-as-molasses start we saw in Baton Rouge — and Kentucky isn’t trailing by 16 the way the Wildcats did in that disaster of a first half at LSU, thankfully. UK hasn’t been able to create the separation we all hoped, despite pushing ahead by as many as nine, but it’s still a lead at the break.
Andrija Jelavic got things rolling with seven of the team’s first nine points in the opening segment, followed by a combination Otega Oweh (13), Denzel Aberdeen (8) and Collin Chandler (7) doing most of the heavy lifting to combine for 28 points.