
First, Kentucky lost backcourt stopper Dale Brown to injury. “A big factor,” Coach Rick Pitino said. Then UK lost All-American Jamal Mashburn to fouls. “That definitely killed us,” freshman Jared Prickett said. Still, Kentucky’s heart of a champion kept beating. But reputation aside, Michigan was too good, too big and too powerful not to pull the plug on UK’s season last night. Read article.