Kentucky capped off its exhibition play by dominating Kentucky State during Thursday’s 111-53 win.
The Wildcats had six players score in double figures while shooting 50 percent (38-of-76) from the floor.
They outrebounded Kentucky State, 57-38, while limiting the Thorobreds to 20-of-71 shooting from the floor.
“… What I liked was we opened up the court a little bit different,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said. “You learned a little bit playing Missouri (Western). This is a new team. So you try certain things. We’ve already thrown out two or three things we were running that we won’t run.
But Kentucky State came in and physically did their thing. But we made shots today. So you make shots it all looks different.
Ugonna (Onyenso) gets 11 rebounds.
Lance (Ware) gets nine rebounds. I told him he could have gotten a few more. But he’s 4-7 from the line. I’ll live with that all day.
I thought Chris (Livingston) was better today.
Antonio (Reeves) made shots today.
“We just, you know, we’re going to be a team, for the time being, that you got to make some jump shots,” he added. “You’re going to have to. And we have the kind of team that can. I wanted to do some things with Jacob (Toppin) to make him get near that basket and do some things physically. I thought he did okay. I even told Coach after, Coach Jackson, I just said, look, we shot the ball well today. We didn’t last game. We did this game.”
Antonio Reeves led Kentucky with 23 points while Jacob Toppin (21 points), Chris Livingston (14), CJ Frederick 14, Cason Wallace (12), and Lance Ware (10) followed. Ugonna Onyenso scored four points and finished with 11 rebounds and four blocked shots. As a team, the Wildcats finished with 11 blocked shots.
