Kentucky vs. Chalons Reims Box-Score

Kentucky/Louisville Basketball Game Time Set

The annual Kentucky-Louisville rivalry has been scheduled for a 2 p.m. ET tip on Dec. 27 in Louisville’s Yum! Center and will air on ESPN2.

This year’s event is being hailed as the Basketball Hall of Fame Shootout with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the non-profit Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.

UK leads the all-time series against Louisville 32-15, including a pair of wins in the 2013-14 season. The Wildcats defeated the Cardinals 73-66 in Rupp Arena during the regular season and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament following a 74-69 win over UofL in Indianapolis.

Kentucky has won six of its last seven meetings with Louisville.

Kentucky DESTROYS Chalons-Reims (French Professional) 81-58

Kentucky won it's second game in the Bahamas 81-58 over Chalons-Remis and this is a game that most thought they would lose as Chalons-Remis had the most talent they will face during this tour.

Every player was impressive it's so hard to pick just one or two to talk about. Instead, lets talk about the team as a whole. The starting five of Harrison Twins, Dakari Johnson, Alex Poythress and Devin Booker are very impressive on both ends of the floor. Early in the game, Chalons-Remis started going inside for some easy buckets so Kentucky switched to one of the most impressive zones that I have seen in quite sometime. There is so much length at the top of the zone that its hard to see or shoot over. Then IF you are actually able to get inside, the length gets longer, so there's no real way to attack this team when they're in a zone unless you can hit a deadly percentage from outside IF you can get open that is.

The second five of Tyler Ulis, Derek Willis, Marcus Lee, Dominique Hawkins and Karl Towns isn't much different from the starting five. It was said earlier this year that Kentucky is Pre-season number one and their second five is pre-season number two. That's not far from the truth when you watch these guys play. Just the abundance of talent on this roster will simply overwhelm some teams this season. However, I think defense is going to be this teams calling-card. You seen it today, when they turned up the heat on defense, Chalons-Reims didn't have a chance at either end of the floor. Also a strength of this team is ball movement. They move the ball around the perimeter and inside and out better than any team Cal has had since he's been at Kentucky. It's really fun to watch these guys play to as they are one of the most unselfish team that I've seen in a while.

Kenny Payne had the pleasure of playing head coach today as Cal sat in the bleachers where he said he wanted to observe his team. Well, if you call this...

observing team, then he does it well. 

This was once again a fun game to watch as these guys seem to really have fun on the court. They also seem to play extremely well together, something that you didn't see at times last season at least early on. I think this team is going to be special. I mean, when you beat a professional team by 23 points you're not bad.. I said it's hard to pick just one guy to talk about, but when a kid has this kind of performance you have to talk about it. Karl Towns Jr. finished the game with a double-double 19 points and 10 rebounds. That's just impressive I don't care if it was an exhibition game or not.

Check back as we will have the post game quotes and box scores later on.

Coach Cal Post Puerto Rico Press Conference (VIDEO)

Aaron Harrison and Alex Poythress Puerto Rico (VIDEO) Post Game Conference

Official Box Score From Kentucky vs. Puerto Rico

Notes From Kentucky's Win Over Puerto Rico

Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes
Kentucky 74, Puerto Rico National Team Reserves 49
August 10, 2014
Sir Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium

Team Records, Notes
This is Kentucky’s second international trip under John Calipari. UK previously visited Canada in the summer of 2010.

UK was 3-0 under Calipari during the 2010 summer exhibition tour.

The Wildcats return to action on Monday, Aug. 11 at 1 p.m. ET. UK will take on Champagne Chalons-Reims from France in its second game in the six-game week in the Bahamas.

Kentucky finished the game with 20 assists and 11 steals.

Ten players logged at least 15 minutes and scored at least two points. 

UK won the battle of the boards with a 38-31 advantage. Kentucky benefited from 28 defensive rebounds.

Puerto Rico shot just 33 percent from the floor, while UK shot an impressive 48 percent. 

First Half Facts

Kentucky used the starting lineup of Devin Booker, Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, Dakari Johnson and Alex Poythress.
Poythress won the opening tip.
Puerto Rico scored the game’s first basket. 
UK’s first subs of the contest were the second unit of Dominique Hawkins, Marcus Lee, Karl-Anthony Towns, Tyler Ulis and Derek Willis.
UK alternated between the lineups with each unit playing around five minutes of game time before turning to the next squad of five. 
Poythress started strong with three quick offensive rebounds.
Kentucky utilized a 10-2 run to close the half.
The Wildcats owned a 38-31 lead at the break.
Aaron Harrison had eight first half points to lead all scorers. Poythress led the squad with four rebounds.

Second Half Facts

UK began the second half with Hawkins, Lee, Towns, Ulis and Willis in the lineup. That unit opened the half on a 6-0 run. 
The first three baskets of the stanza were aided by assists. 
Kentucky did not let up with the original starting five stretching the opening run to 16-2.
UK grabbed its largest lead with 42.1 seconds remaining at 74-49.
Aaron Harrison again led the scoring with seven second-half points. Lee and Towns both had six and Willis contributed five. 

Individual Notes

Devin Booker scored nine points in his first collegiate action.
Hit the team’s first 3-pointer.
Aaron Harrison had a game-high 15 points.
Scored in every way possible with at least one 3-pointer, dunk, jump shot, lay-up and free throw.
Marcus Lee poured in nine points and added six rebounds.
Tied several teammates for a team-high two steals.
Connected on 67 percent of his shots from the field. 
Alex Poythress logged 10 points and added six rebounds.
Was active on the boards with a squad-high three offensive snags.
Karl-Anthony Towns scored 10 points and added a team-best seven rebounds.
Hit both of his free throws.
Derek Willis had five second half points and added two steals and a pair of assists.
Ignited the second half rally with an opening backdoor alley-oop dunk from Towns.
Tyler Ulis dished out a team-high five assists.
Scored two points.
Added a pair of steals.