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They needed it. Texas is kind of the epitome of a bubble team, right? They were on the bubble last year, made the first four. I think they're going to probably be on the bubble this year. And when you play a team like that on your home court you have to beat them and Kentucky did. In terms of the thing that I am keeping my eye on for the rest of the year is can Kentucky do enough to make the tournament which still is my goal. And that probably became even more true after what happened tonight. This was one you needed and you need Saturday against Ole Miss because then you're going to start your schedule starting next game starting after Ole Miss. Not only is the schedule the hardest in the country, it already was he anyway, but it really is the hardest in the country. I mean you have every game except one after the next one is against a team, maybe two, a likely tournament team. So you got to get your wins when you can. And this was a nice one to get away. Was great in the first half. Well, first of all, let's talk about some things that I think the team did overall really well. Drawing fouls. Okay? Texas comes into the game leading the country in fouls drawn. Leading the country in free throws. Leading the country in free throws made. Okay. That's what they do. They are, you know, Mark Pope sort of said they're kind of a dirty team, but not in the way that you think of. Like for hockey fans. The Florida Panthers are. They're like dirty in the sense of they're going to bang into you and make the referees call fouls. And they did that tonight. This game had a lot of foul calls, but Kentucky matched them and they did exactly the same thing, maybe even did it a little better than Texas. Kentucky makes 30 of their 35 free throws. That's awesome. And three of their misses were Aberdeen. In the last three and a half minutes before that, they missed two free throws for the game. I mean, that is, that is really, really impressive. And it's why they were able to win. They held Texas to two three pointers made. The two they made were two threes where Brandon Garrison didn't get out on his man and let him shoot once with the shot clock running down. Otherwise they might have gone through the game allowing no threes. I thought they played excellent defense on the perimeter. They said Texas beat us down low and Texas scored 80, but we were able to score 85. I kind of thought Texas puts up a lot of points. I think I said on the pregame show, 80 is the minimum. Well, if that's true, we held them to the minimum and that's what you needed to do. And the Kentucky offensively found its rhythm. I thought obviously Colin Chandler was Great in the second half. Scored 14 out of Kentucky's 15 points at one point in a row. Made shots, but also was aggressive. This was the Colin Chandler that we saw a little bit in the non conference and that we expected going into the year. We had it the whole game tonight. And that Colin Chandler, by the way, he will have to do that going forward. And then Denzel, Aberdeen was good again. Had a little bit, missed those free throws, had a turnover at the end, but made enough down the stretch to get the victory. Obviously you got great minutes from Moreno. I might thank Billy Nate Oates for saving our season. He said we never passed it out of the post. Moreno had six assists tonight. Nate Oates was right. It's funny, I think it was last year Nate Oates said after the Alabama game, I think they now know how to play and he was right. And I think he was right about this team too, because you're seeing a lot more ball movement since he said that. Moreno with six assists, Diabate gave some good minutes defensively, although his plus minus wasn't great because of one particular stretch he was in. But overall, I thought for the most part, you got something out of everybody. Now the bad news, Cam Williams breaks his foot. I'm not sure that you can have much worse injury luck than Kentucky's had the last two years. I mean, just think about it. Lamont Butler had an injury very similar to Jalen Lowe's. You basically lost your starting point card both years when it was the one position you couldn't afford to lose. In both years, you lost it. You last year had constant injuries, nagging injuries for Andrew Carr and for Jackson Robinson, and then Kirk Crease is out for the year. So they had four very significant injuries last year. And even though three of them played through it, I don't think any of those guys was 100% healthy at the end of the year. And now this year, Jalen Lowe out for the year. I don't know what's going to happen with Quaint's. I hope he's coming back, but every game he doesn't play, you start to think more and more that he might not. And now you lose. Cam Williams. Now, apparently his injuries, a broken foot, depending on the kind of fracture, that can be four to six weeks. Pope did not rule out him coming back, but I mean, you can do the math. You would be looking at at best, you know, SEC tournament, NCAA tournament, and I don't know how you can think that immediately that guy would come back and be ready to go. So I'm just going to, for my mind, think he's not going to play the rest of the year. If he does, I'll be very happy. But for my mind, I'm just going to assume he doesn't. So on a roster where you had 13 guys, you're now down to nine because they've chosen not to play Braden Hawthorne you yet. So what happens? Well, on the one hand, if you're Jasper Johnson or you're Trent Noah, I mean, the reality is you've got to play. Probably both of those guys have to play. Jasper certainly has to play, but I think Trent Noah now probably will as well. And both of these guys are Kentucky kids who a lot has been expected of them from a long time. All right. Guys, now you've got, you've got 12 games to do it. You got 12 games to sort of be the guy that everyone has hoped you'd be since you were in eighth grade. Like, that's what they have because they need both those guys. There's no way they can play without them. You know, they have two of every big man. But now at the guard position, you know you're going to play away Aberdeen and Chandler until they fall over, but they're going to have to have a break and Jasper Johnson and Noah are going to have to play. So it's time for those guys to step up. I think you also have to consider, Billy, do you have to consider where you, where you, whether you pull the red shirt for Hawthorne?