John Clay: Kentucky basketball has time to figure out what went wrong vs. Ohio State. But not too much time.

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The Big Blue Express was rolling. Kentucky basketball owned a 10-1 record. A No. 4 ranking in the AP Top 25. Enviable positions in both the KenPom and NET metrics. Universal praise for what new coach Mark Pope had accomplished. Then splat -- New York happened.

Call it the Big Apple Bashing. The Cats delivered lumps of coal for your Christmas stocking, beaten 85-65 by the Ohio State Buckeyes in the CBS Sports Classic. Kentucky didn't shoot well. Kentucky didn't defend well. Kentucky was beaten badly by an Ohio State team that had been overwhelmed 91-58 against Auburn the Saturday before."We were trying to find some juice, find some energy, find some fight," Pope said afterward. "And we just fell really short."

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