Kentucky Wildcats (18-8, 7-6 SEC) at Alabama Crimson Tide (21-5, 10-3 SEC)
No. 4 Alabama faces the No. 17 Kentucky Wildcats after Mark Sears scored 35 points in Alabama's 110-98 loss to the Missouri Tigers
Mark Sears, Grant Nelson and the Alabama Crimson Tide look to snap a two-game skid with a win against the Kentucky Wildcats today.
Mark Pope and the No. 17 Kentucky Wildcats will look to make it back-to-back victories when they lock horns with the No. 4 Alabama Crimson Tide at Coleman Coliseum on Saturday night.
After Mark Pope's Kentucky Wildcats fell to Alabama Crimson Tide 96-83 on Saturday, he expressed his displeasure at his team's performance.
A 103-97 win at Kentucky on Jan. 18 jumpstarted a seven-game win streak for the Tide, which was broken in back-to-back losses against Auburn and Missouri entering Saturday night. The catalyst in those defeats were slow starts — Alabama dug early, double-digit first-half deficits which resulted in consecutive wire-to-wire losses.
No. 17 Kentucky visits the Oklahoma Sooners after Koby Brea scored 20 points in the Wildcats' 96-83 loss to the Alabama Crimson Tide.