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CBB : ATS Matchup
Saturday 12/15/2018Line$ LineOU LineScore
UTAH
 
KENTUCKY
+15.5  

-15.5  


138
 
61
Final
88

UTAH (4 - 4) at KENTUCKY (7 - 2)
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Saturday, 12/15/2018 5:00 PM
Board OpenLatest
627UTAH143.5143.5
628KENTUCKY-13.5-15.5
ADVANCED TEAM STATS
UTAH - Current Season Performance
 Straight UpAgainst SpreadTeamOpponent
 W-LUnitsW-LO-UScoreHalfFG PctReb.ScoreHalfFG PctReb.
All Games4-4-5.52-63-472.633.245.0%34.571.930.144.7%32.6
Road Games1-4-6.51-42-267.828.843.0%30.477.432.249.4%31.4
Last 5 Games2-3-4.51-41-367.828.243.5%31.274.629.045.7%33.6
UTAH Team Statistics
 Shooting    3pt ShootingFree Throws Rebounding 
 PPGHalfFGM-APctFGM-APCTFTM-APctTotOffAstPFStlTOBk
Team Stats (All Games)72.633.224-5445.0%9-2536.0%15-2171.2%34914183132
vs opponents surrendering71.233.125-5743.5%8-2235.0%14-2068.9%35913206133
Team Stats (Road Games)67.828.822-5243.0%7-2332.7%16-2175.5%30911203141
Stats Against (All Games)71.930.125-5644.7%8-2333.5%14-1875.0%33814205113
vs opponents averaging72.733.625-5844.1%7-2131.5%15-2269.9%36914186133
Stats Against (Road Games)77.432.226-5349.4%8-2237.5%17-2278.7%31815204123

KENTUCKY - Current Season Performance
 Straight UpAgainst SpreadTeamOpponent
 W-LUnitsW-LO-UScoreHalfFG PctReb.ScoreHalfFG PctReb.
All Games7-2-3.43-65-484.240.648.8%41.371.333.042.6%26.0
Home Games7-0+13-43-484.441.750.4%42.362.930.439.9%23.0
Last 5 Games4-1-22-32-383.039.649.6%39.865.030.239.4%28.0
KENTUCKY Team Statistics
 Shooting    3pt ShootingFree Throws Rebounding 
 PPGHalfFGM-APctFGM-APCTFTM-APctTotOffAstPFStlTOBk
Team Stats (All Games)84.240.628-5748.8%6-1634.0%23-3075.7%411314176155
vs opponents surrendering71.934.625-5942.5%8-2433.4%14-1970.0%36913186153
Team Stats (Home Games)84.441.728-5650.4%6-1637.3%22-2975.5%421314157155
Stats Against (All Games)71.333.026-6042.6%9-2340.0%11-1668.5%26812236152
vs opponents averaging7837.328-6146.3%8-2335.1%14-1970.2%37915197144
Stats Against (Home Games)62.930.423-5839.9%8-2238.6%8-1367.0%23710225162
Average power rating of opponents played: UTAH 72,  KENTUCKY 76.2
SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
UTAH - Season Results
 Team StatsOpp Stats
DateOpponentScoreSULineATSTot.O/UShotsPctREBTOShotsPctREBTO
11/8/2018MAINE75-61W-22.5L137.5U27-5549.1%421422-5540.0%2612
11/12/2018@ MINNESOTA69-78L8L146O24-6040.0%341229-5651.8%3411
11/15/2018MISS VALLEY ST98-63W-27.5W143.5O35-6851.5%441024-6338.1%3312
11/22/2018*HAWAII79-90L-9L139.5O26-5944.1%331128-5352.8%318
11/23/2018*GRAND CANYON75-66W-1W145U24-4850.0%311319-4443.2%2414
11/25/2018*NORTHWESTERN57-79L2.5L136P18-3946.2%262127-5350.9%2815
12/1/2018TULSA69-64W-7L145.5U21-5042.0%381025-6936.2%457
12/8/2018*BYU59-74L3L158.5U19-5236.5%281127-5747.4%4010
12/15/2018@ KENTUCKY              
12/17/2018FLORIDA A&M              
12/21/2018N ARIZONA              
12/29/2018NEVADA              
1/3/2019@ ARIZONA ST              
1/5/2019@ ARIZONA              

KENTUCKY - Season Results
 Team StatsOpp Stats
DateOpponentScoreSULineATSTot.O/UShotsPctREBTOShotsPctREBTO
11/6/2018*DUKE84-118L-2.5L160O26-5944.1%371543-7954.4%384
11/9/2018S ILLINOIS71-59W-18.5L150U24-5444.4%481923-5641.1%1913
11/14/2018N DAKOTA96-58W-26W153O33-6253.2%451319-4839.6%1520
11/18/2018VMI92-82W-34L152.5O29-5949.2%431129-6246.8%2213
11/21/2018WINTHROP87-74W-22.5L160.5O31-5556.4%371928-5947.5%2219
11/23/2018TENNESSEE ST77-62W-28L154U23-5244.2%371422-5440.7%2819
11/28/2018MONMOUTH90-44W-27W146U30-5356.6%401416-5827.6%2516
12/1/2018UNC-GREENSBORO78-61W-12.5W150U28-5848.3%461724-6735.8%3011
12/8/2018*SETON HALL83-84L-7L143O27-6243.5%391527-5945.8%3516
12/15/2018UTAH              
12/22/2018*N CAROLINA              
12/29/2018@ LOUISVILLE              
1/5/2019@ ALABAMA              
KEY GAME INFORMATION
UTAH: Last season: 23-12, finished as NIT runner-up.
Nickname: Utes
Coach: Larry Krystkowiak
Conference: Pac-12
Who's gone: Point guard Justin Bibbins, forward David Collette, forward Tyler Rawson, guard /forward Gabe Beeler, forward Chris Seeley, center Jakub Jokl, guard Kolbe Caldwell.
Who's back: Senior guard Sedrick Barefield is the only full-time starter back from last season. Barefield averaged 12.0 points per game a year ago and shot 35.4 percent from 3-point range and could take on an increased scoring load this season. Senior guard Parker Van Dyke made 12 starts last season and averaged 4.0 points in 18.6 minutes per game. Sophomore forward Donnie Tillman will have a chance to seize a larger role in the frontcourt. Tillman averaged 7.8 points and 4.8 rebounds off the bench as a rookie. Junior center Jayce Johnson could also have a bigger role after averaging 5.5 points and 5.4 rebounds in 16.8 minutes a year ago.
Who's new: Guard Charles Jones, Jr. headlines a talented crop of newcomers. Jones was a two-time NJCAA All-American at the College of Southern Idaho, where he amassed 1,194 points in two seasons. He will give Utah's backcourt an added scoring and ball-handling punch alongside Barefield. Senior center Novak Topalovic joins the Utes as a graduate transfer from Idaho State. Topalovic averaged 10.7 points and 6.8 rebounds in 30 games for the Bengals a year ago. Among the incoming freshman, forwards Both Gach, Riley Battin, and Timmy Allen could make immediate contributions.
The Skinny: Utah is brimming with potential but short on experience heading into Larry Krystkowiak's eighth season at the helm. The Utes signed one of their most talented freshman classes ever during the offseason. Still, the team lost three of its top four scorers from a year ago and returns just one full-time starter.
Expectations: Utah was picked to finish eighth in the Pac-12 preseason media poll. The Utes have a history of exceeding preseason expectations, but a tough schedule combined with inexperience may make it a tougher climb in 2018-19.
KENTUCKY: Last season: 26-11, won the SEC Tournament title and reached NCAA Sweet 16.
Nickname: Wildcats.
Coach: John Calipari.
Conference: Southeastern.
Who's gone: Forward Kevin Knox and guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander became NBA lottery selections. Guard Hamidou Diallo and forward Jarred Vanderbilt were also drafted.
Who's back: Forward PJ Washington withdrew from the NBA Draft and is the top returning scorer and rebounder at 10.8 points and 5.7 rebounds per game respectively. Six-foot-11 Nick Richards and guard Quade Green (9.3 points) returned for their sophomore seasons, giving the Wildcats some experience. Guard Jemarl Baker is healthy after redshirting last year with injury.
Who's new: 6-8 forward Reid Travis is a graduate transfer from Stanford who was a two-time All-Pacific 12 Conference first team selection. Kentucky's latest group of blue chip recruits include forward E.J. Montgomery and guards Ashton Hagans, Keldon Johnson, Immanuel Quickley and Tyler Herro.
The Skinny: The mix of returnees Washington, Green and Richards with another heralded freshman class led by Johnson and Montgomery recalls the deep and talented 2014-15 team that won its first 38 games. Calipari won't go there on the expectations, but he loves the depth of his 10th Wildcats squad.
Expectations: Oddsmakers have made the Wildcats the 11/2 second choice behind Duke (5-1) to win the national championship. They have the potential to surpass last year's tournament run and pursue that ninth NCAA title.
PREVIEW
No. 19 Kentucky on the rebound against Utah
 

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- No. 19 Kentucky, which plummeted 10 spots in the latest Associated Press rankings after an overtime loss to Seton Hall last weekend, looks to get back on track when Utah visits Rupp Arena on Saturday.

Kentucky (7-2) lost 84-83 in overtime to Seton Hall at Madison Square Garden in New York. Both of the Wildcats' losses have been on the road. They are 7-0 at home.

Utah (4-4) has defeated Maine, Mississippi Valley State, Grand Canyon and Tulsa but lost to Minnesota, Hawaii, Northwestern and BYU. All four losses have been by nine points or more.

"They're big. They're really big," Kentucky coach John Calipari said Friday. "They run good stuff. They space the court. They play kind of a matchup zone that's interesting. Sometimes they'll stay in it, sometimes they'll go man.

"So they'll do some stuff that you'll have with teams you've got to look at and say, 'OK, let's make sure we cover this.' Because again, I tried to send some guys on that mission and have those six-year guys, but I don't. I've got young guys so you must cover some of that stuff with them, which we didn't have."

This will be the 11th meeting between Kentucky and Utah with the Wildcats owning the series of late. UK has won seven in a row, six of which came during NCAA Tournament play. The most notable was a 78-69 victory by Kentucky for the 1998 NCAA championship.

Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak, who actually at the 1998 Final Four as an assistant with Stanford, says a two-decade-old event will have no impact on Saturday's meeting.

"No disrespect to the past, I love the tradition and seeing the photos from the Final Four and knowing all of the history," Krystkowiak said. "We've always talked about the three different elements that are really important in your program and the past is one third of that.

"So when people hear that I'm not talking about that, that's no disrespect to that era, but that has nothing to do with it. I think it's been 42 years since the Utes have beat them. So it's a whole different category and we've got far bigger fish to fry and issues to deal with than any past history."

When the game tips off, Kentucky will be without sophomore point guard Quade Green, who announced that he's transferring immediately.

Green ranked fifth in scoring at 8.8 points per game but had seen his time diminish this season with the development of freshmen point guards Immanuel Quickley and Ashton Hagans. Green played only 10 minutes in the overtime loss to Seton Hall and had 21 assists and 21 turnovers for the season.

"He felt that he was an in a situation that he didn't see he could come back from," Calipari said Friday. "He's a great kid. Met with mom and dad, and mom was crying. It is disappointing for me when young people want to leave, but he'll be treated the same way.

"I told he and his family, 'I'm going to be here for you, but this next choice is probably bigger than the last choice. You've got to think it through and how you want to play.' So it was a talk. We were in there for a little while. He hugged me and said, 'I love you, Coach,' and I said, 'I love you, too.'"

Kentucky has four players averaging in double figures. Guards Keldon Johnson and Tyler Herro average 15.2 and 11.6, respectively. Big men Reid Travis and PJ Washington check in at 14.4 and 14.0.

Through nine games, Kentucky still ranks as one of the nation's top rebounding teams at 41.3 while allowing just 26.0, a 15.3 differential.

Utah averages just 72.6 points per game and has only two players in double figures -- Sedrick Barefield at 14.0 points per game and Donnie Tillman at 11.4.

"It's something that we've talked about, our program, getting to a place that's certainly one of the blue bloods and leads the country in attendance," Krystkowiak said. "It's going to be an unbelievable environment."


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