Super Bowling - Kentucky throws a gutter ball

It's the Super Bowl today. I feel like I should be pounding back double deuces, eating pizza and hotwings, and watching 2Hot2Handle change diapers 12 times in honor of Aaron Rodgers uniform number as the Packers face the Steelers.

However, today I find myself alone, sober, and depressed. The first of which I chose for myself as I could care less about the Super Bowl and have given it more than one thought to just going bowling. The last two feed into each other. Drinking would just further drive my inability to cope with the 4 SEC road losses, including teams like Georgia, Ole Miss, and Alabama. The depression could create more drinking, which would create more depression. Thus, axe both, and problems solved - except for the whole losing games thing, that's still an issue to be dealt with.

But we're taking it one game at a time and here's what happened yesterday. Kentucky found themselves in Gainesville, Florida and in early foul trouble. Brandon Knight and Josh Harrellson sat for a large portion of the first half, but Kentucky still managed to only trail by 2 at the break, 34-32.

The second half found Florida up 55-42 leading by 13 with 11 minutes remaining. A 6 minute, 17-3 Kentucky run put the Cats up 1 but 5 more lead changes would take place with Florida ultimately ending up on the side your team wants to be on and held a 69-68 lead with 32 seconds remaining.

With those last 32 seconds is what will be puzzling you today, tomorrow, and for the future. Like other instances where Kentucky has played in close games, the strategy left something to wonder. The Cats would wait until there were only 12 seconds left on the clock (and 5 on the shot clock) to foul Chandler Parsons. Parsons, would make one of two giving the ball to Kentucky. Brandon Knight would take his time with getting the ball down court, get a high pick at the three point line and heave up a three that didn't look like it had a chance from the time it left Knight's hands. A play that looked doomed from the start and leaves one second guessing the plan and decision making.

*sigh

With the loss, Kentucky falls to 4-4 in conference, 16-6 overall and 4th place in the SEC East (behind Florida 7-2, Tennessee 5-3, and Georgia 5-4). But there is good news, with all of ESPN's bizzillion hours of Super Bowl coverage, you wont have to worry about seeing many replays of the loss.
The next game Kentucky plays will be 9:00pm Tuesday at home against Tennessee. The game will mark the first game back for Bruce Pearl after his 8 game SEC imposed league play suspension.

F-it, where's that beer?