Mark Story: Better thank the 'Billy G. Three'

At the symbolic halfway point of the Kentucky basketball season — non-conference slate done; SEC schedule dead ahead — it seems an appropriate time to take stock.

So it's time to issue a small thank you to (insert drum roll) Billy Gillispie.

Really.

Even with a slow start Monday evening against plucky Pennsylvania, Kentucky hung an 86-62 demolition on the Quakers in Rupp Arena.

The Cats have made it through the pre-conference schedule with impressive victories over Washington, Notre Dame and at Louisville. They have done it, primarily, with a playing rotation of six iron men.

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