SUPER BOWL 2012

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Kentucky vs Radford 11/23/11
(Wednesday at 7PMEST/6PMCST) FSSouth/UK IMG#
# Game delayed on UK IMG Sports Network (UK IMG)
This is the first meeting between UK and Radford.

Radford Highlanders (Big South Conference)

Location: Radford, Va.
Enrollment: 9,230
Arena: 3,200

Head Coach: Mike Jones
Career Record: First season as HC

2010-11 Record: 5-24
2010-11 Big South Record: 2-16

2011-12 Record: 3-3

Radford 58 Delaware 54
Radford 79 Shenandoah 50
Penn St. 62 Radford 46
Radford 78 Central Penn College 49
Long Island 81 Radford 59
Marist 60 Radford 47

Radford Stats

PPG-61.2
FG%-37.6%
3 Pt. %-29.1%
FT%-57.1%
RPG-38.5
APG-11.0
TO’s-15.3
SPG-8.3
BPG-2.5

Starting Lineup

Jareal Smith G- 6’3” Soph…………..PPG-11.7
R.J. Price G-6’0” Fr………………….PPG-7.5
Javonte Green G-6’4” Fr…………….PPG-6.0
Chance Smith G-6’0” Sr……………..PPG-5.7
Johnathan Edwards F-6’8” Sr………..PPG-9.7

Radford has a new coach in Mike Jones who was an assistant coach at Georgia and VCU. Coach Jones takes over a Radford team that had a horrible 5-24 record last season and was near the bottom in offense among division 1 teams. Radford has been starting and playing a very small lineup in some games, but I look for 6’9” Tolga Cerrah and 6’9” Lukas Winegarner, both sophomores, to see a fair number of minutes against UK’s front line. 6’8” Johnathan Edwards leads the team in rebounds….R.J. Price leads in assists….and Jareal Smith leads in steals. Unfortunately, there is no sugar coating it….Radford is simply a very weak team and is terribly outmatched by UK’s huge talent advantage.

UK will have been happy to get back home to Rupp arena after a long road trip. The OD game where a senior laden team played a hard nose zone defense and really gave the Cats a tough time in a very physical game should have served as a great lesson for these young Cats…..they now know what it’s going to be like to go up against tough zone defenses, which they will likely face often this season. Teams will often milk the clock….play zone…and get physical in the paint.

The key for the Cats is to continue to improve in every facet of the game….and they definitely need to learn how to be effective against zone defenses. Also, hopefully, UK practices on free throw shooting!

The Radford game should give all the UK players an opportunity to get minutes. I see a total blowout win for the Cats…40 point win or more depending on when Cal goes deep in his bench. GO CATS!