A week ago Tuesday, Kentucky took a two point lead against Ole Miss into halftime.  As is customary during any ESPN televised game, one of the coaches does a halftime interview on the way to the locker room, and this time it was Gillespie's turn.  Despite the small lead, sideline reporter Jeanine Edwards asked Gillespie a question regarding Jody Meeks' lack of production, and Billy Clyde did not take too kindly to that: 

Kind of an over-reaction if you asked me - and you didn't (nice bland follow-up question on Edwards' part).  But in the five halves of basketball since that interview, the Wildcats have:

• given up 48 points to the Rebels in the second half of that game, and lost going away, 85-80
• committed 21 turnovers in a 78-77 home loss against South Carolina Saturday, and
• scored a grand total of four points in a nine minute stretch during their disappointing 66-57 loss to Mississippi State.

Coincidence?  Perhaps.  But it ought to give Coach Gillespie some pause the next time he treats a reporter's question with such disdain.

(in all seriousness, with games against Florida and at Arkansas and Vandy over the next two weeks, the 'Cats better get their act together quickly if they have any interest in playing a post-season game of any sort.)

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