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The No. 19 Kentucky Wildcats survived an upset bid by Michigan on Sunday, defeating the Wolverines 73-69 in the 2022 Basketball Hall of Fame London Showcase. Cason Wallace and Jacob Toppin led the way with 14 points each while Oscar Tshiebwe added a double-double of 13 points and 14 rebounds. The win comes as Kentucky’s first power-five victory this season and improves their record to 6-2. They’ll return to Lexington for a home matchup vs. Yale on Saturday at Noon ET.
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Notes of concern. Our guards miss too many free throws. It cost us the MSU game and will beat us in at least a couple of more if the percentage doesn’t get better. Michigan has no problem with feeding their center in the post; why can’t we do that for Oscar? The dribble drive offense is going to cost us games. SEC teams know that is all Calipari runs and they prepare for it. We need to work more on beating the press and zone defenses as we will see plenty of both in league play. I guess Calipari doesn’t know how to run a zone defense. It would help if we had that in our bag along with a 1-3-1 half court trapping defense…but then we would look too much like a well coached team and Calipari is not going to stand for that!