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UK Basketball: Postgame press conference| Press conference
Postgame Press Conference:
The most regrettable thing about Kentucky’s stunning 85-79 overtime loss to No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s in Thursday’s NCAA Tournament round of 64 is that one of the most likable collection of UK players ever will now be remembered for the worst Big Dance defeat in Wildcats hoops history.
“Talk about a pleasure to coach, this whole team. I’m sick right now for them,” a subdued Kentucky Coach John Calipari said in the Gainbridge Fieldhouse media area after the result that rocked college basketball. “I wish I’d had an answer or two. I just do.”
By seed, East Region No. 2 UK’s defeat at the hands of Shaheen Holloway’s tough-minded Peacocks is the biggest upset ever suffered by a Kentucky men’s basketball team in the NCAA Tournament.
Press Conference:
As always, Grady was a standup man when asked about his shooting struggles. One thread that ran through several defeats late in the season was a tendency to stumble in the decisive final minutes of a possession-by-possession game.
Against Saint Peter’s, Kentucky led 68-62 with less than three minutes left in the second half.
“If I had made a couple and just been myself the last couple games, we probably would have won them,” he said. “I’m not trying not to escape that responsibility. I shot like crap again.”
When asked why his shooting accuracy declined, Grady said, “if I could pinpoint it exactly, I wouldn’t have shot like crap. I feel bad I couldn’t help — in a better fashion — us win.
