Kentucky vs Florida Basketball 2015: Wildcats' Pursuit of Perfect Regular Season Concluding in Lexington
ByThe Kentucky Wildcats (1) are finally here - on the brink of a perfect regular season - but they know their work is not over even if they beat the Florida Gators.
Kentucky will be at home and the Rupp Arena crowd will likely be beyond raucous as their Wildcats look to post the first undefeated regular season in school history. They will then start their march through the SEC and NCAA Tournaments to try and go undefeated all the way through.
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"Every game seems to be an event," Wildcats coach John Calipari said in a pregame press conference, according to the Associated Press. "This will be another event."
The Gators are one of the few teams to give the Wildcats a true scare. On Feb. 7 in Gainesville, the Gators took a two-point lead into halftime, but Kentucky outscored their opponents 40-31 in the second half.
But Kentucky is strongest at home and Florida has been weakest on the road. The Gators are 2-8 on the road in the midst of an 8-9 SEC season and the last time they won a road contest was Jan. 27 against Alabama.
"You have to play a game where you can't be inconsistent at all against them," Florida coach Billy Donovan said in a pregame presser, according to the AP.
In their last three home games, Kentucky scored 84 on Arkansas, 110 on Auburn and 77 on South Carolina.
"Nobody panicked, everybody just stayed doing what they do," Kentucky center Willie Cauley-Stein said in his pregame comments of the team's win against Georgia earlier in the week. "You've got to come up and make plays when it's like that, and that's the NCAA tournament right there. That was a great test for us."