Welcome to A Sea of Blue's open game thread for the Lipscomb Bisons at Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball game today in Rupp Arena: Game particulars as follows, courtesy of UKAthletics.com:

Gameday Information
Kentucky vs. Lipscomb Sat., Dec. 15 - 12:30 p.m. ET Lexington, Ky. Game Notes: UK | LU
Coverage
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Today, the Wildcats face a Lipscomb team that is very much as advertised so far this year. They are smaller than the Wildcats in almost every position, but they do have a large center and have been an above-average offensive rebounding team this year. That's the one area where any improvement in the Wildcats should show up.

What I hope to see:

• Patient, efficient offense;
• Improved transition offense and defense. In the last game against the Portland Pilots, both sides of transition were notably horrible;
• Value possessions. Lipscomb will play fast, so the tendency will be not to value possessions. I'd like to see Kentucky overcome that tendency;
• Attack the offensive glass. Top to bottom, Kentucky is bigger, and there is no excuse for them to allow the Bisons to beat them on the glass;
• Continued strong defensive play;
• Sharper offensive execution;
• Improvement in Ryan Harrow and Kyle Wiltjer.

Let's hope the Wildcats are ready to show us the team that we have all been expecting.

Go, 'Cats!