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The Kentucky Wildcats held their annual UK Blue-White basketball game. See highlights from the action at Memorial Coliseum.

Kentucky basketball played without its two top point guards vs. Georgetown, but the Wildcats' defense was suspect in the loss Thursday at Rupp Arena.

Here are three things we learned as Kentucky basketball now looks ahead to next week's exhibition against top-ranked Purdue at Rupp Arena:

A lot of the time, the national media tries not to overreact to the exhibition games leading into the season, but Kentucky's performance in the win over #1 Purd

The effort was better, but Andy Kennedy still wants more from UAB basketball. For a second straight exhibition game, UAB was outpowered by its opponents inside Bartow Arena, as the Blazers suffered a 78-76 loss to Western Kentucky on Wednesday night.

So Lee K. Howard, WKYT’s sports director and anchor Kristen Kennedy’s husband, took their kids out of school to watch the team work at Rupp. Lee K said at the end of practice, Coach Pope picked two kids to come onto the floor to try to make a basket. If they did, the players wouldn’t have to run lines.

Georgetown won its exhibition opener, topping George Washington, 73-64. Sophomore forward Caleb Williams led the Hoyas with 20 points and six rebounds, while junior guard Malik Mack added 16. The Cats and the Hoyas have met just twice. In 1922, it was Georgetown getting the best of Kentucky 33-28 in Washington, D.C.