It was Kentucky vs Florida in a ranked SEC college basketball game at Rupp Arena. Mark Pope's Kentucky Wildcats won. See highlights from the SEC game.

A top-10 battle gets an early start Saturday in Lexington, as the 10th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats play host to the No. 6 Florida Gators in the SEC opener for both teams.

Obviously, both teams like to play fast with those fastbreak points, and it leads to more possessions. Kentucky ranks 33rd in possessions per game at 74.8, and Florida ranks 75th at 73.6. The Cats rank 43rd in KenPom’s adjusted tempo, and the Gators rank 81st.

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Kentucky’s distance shooting woes returned in Athens. One game after the Cats lit up Rupp Arena with a 14-for-29 3-point shooting clinic against Florida, one of the best 3-point defenses in the country, Kentucky went just 6-for-25 from distance against Georgia, which also boasts a 3-point defense that ranks in the top 20 nationally.

Three days removed from a thrilling shootout to take down one of the final undefeated teams in college basketball, No. 6 Kentucky suffered a letdown on the road with an 82-69 defeat at Georgia on Tuesday to fall to 1-1 in SEC play.