ESPN Analytics predicts outcome of Georgia-Kentucky showdown in Lexington
By Mark Kern
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ESPN Analytics believes that Mark Pope’s Kentucky team has a major advantage on Tuesday night as it welcomes Georgia to Lexington for a primetime SEC showdown.
Pope has steered the Wildcats to an 8-4 SEC record after losing their first two conference games. They lost their most recent SEC game against Florida on Saturday, but showed on the road they can hang and play with the top teams in the country. ESPN’s BPI believes that Kentucky has a great chance to keep rolling against Georgia at Rupp Arena.
The Wildcats have a 76.5% chance to prevail over Mike White’s team, according to the ESPN Analytics, and the matchup will get the royal treatment from ESPN, being placed in the 9 p.m. ET window.
Kentucky is tied for 3rd place in the SEC with Vanderbilt, Tennessee and Alabama, holding the tiebreaker over Tennessee, but not Alabama or Vanderbilt.
Georgia entered the SEC playing some good basketball, but things have went downhill fast for the Bulldogs. After the 94-78 loss to Oklahoma in their last outing, the Bulldogs have lost five of their last six games. The Bulldogs still have a solid 17-8 record on the season, but the record in the SEC is only 5-7 after starting 4-2 in conference play.
The game on Tuesday night gives Georgia a huge opportunity to boost its resume with a win, but the team will have to get back to playing like it was earlier in the season.
