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If you would have told me that Elston Turner was going to score 40 points today at Rupp Arena, I would have most assuredly called you a liar mouth. A damn one at that.
But that is exactly what he did. Elston, and he wasn't even the only Turner the Aggies had scorching us, came into Rupp today and took over payments so to speak on the building. He put in the biggest visiting performance I can remember ever being laid down on the Cats since Chris Lofton came in and ruled Rupp for Tennessee just as he had done in a Mason County uniform. Well, Lofton and those two dudes from Penn State, the Crispin brothers, who led the Nittany Lions to a very rare Sweet 16 run that is not the norm at all for the basketball Lions. You remember that one. They combined for 57 points in Rupp back in 2000. If you don't remember that one, you better be very young, because if not, you're not a Blue Blood.
You would think that he was up for the Naismith, or even already had his hands firmly grasped on the trophy. He already surpassed his PPG in the first half, with plenty of that half left to play.
Kentucky, as has become the norm, was flat, out of control and most alarmingly, still playing against themselves. They have no cohesion, and they certainly have no chemistry.
Elston was literally unconscious, hitting shots from anywhere at will. It was sickening to watch. His 40 points are the most an Opposing player has scored in Rupp Arena in 23 years. 23 years...23..Years!
Wiltjer is still playing horrible and Poythress is still playing like a pouting kid.
The thing is though, Kentucky wasn't all that bad on the defensive end, and it wasn't like Turner was being uncontested. He had a man on him and a hand in his face and he was still going plum off on the Cats.
It was just Turner's night.
Jokingly, I had made the comment that at least Texas A&M didn't have a 'Johnny Basketball'... turns out though, they did in fact have one, and his name was Elston Turner.
The Cats drop only their 2nd game in Rupp under Cal since he has been in Lexington. However, both have come this season.
These kids just don't get it yet. The turnaround that we know, are maybe more aptly knew, that this team was going to have has just been pushed back at least into February. We thought originally it was coming in December. It's January now. It's getting tough.
Add to that Kentucky will more than likely drop at least one to Florida, if not both, and it's very possible that Missouri will beat us as will Ole Miss. Heck, Jarnell Stokes and company in Knoxville may even steal one from us, and this is going to be a trying time for the Cats in the SEC.
Ryan Harrow and Nerlens Noel need help in Lexington, and they need it yesterday. Nerlens had a game today, that had Turner not shown out like he did, would have been recognized as the gem it was. However, it will be a forgotten footnote in a Aggie drumming of the Cats in their own dojo. Turner acted out like an 8 year old off his Ritalin . It was impressive, while at the same time, nauseating.
Today was one of those days where you were almost happy that you had an AFC playoff game and Huntington Prep on TV to switch back and forth between just to keep you from making a regretful remote throw at your LG flat screen watching the Cats.
Texas A&M records their first SEC conference win over the SEC's royalty in their own house, 83-71.
But on the bright side, Duke finally lost , too.
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