[Stardust]

Samuels played like a Freshman Sunday, plain and simple. His fouls were "out of control" fouls. He was trying to make a play that was not there on at least two of the fouls. No disrespect to the young man. He is and will be a great college basketball player. UK was fortunate to not have to contend with him in the game.

Patterson would have had the same game no matter if Samuels played or not. But everyone's comments that Patterson dominated the game are not taking into account that he did not have to play against Samuel and what the affect of that would have had on Patterson's game down the stretch. Samuels took himself out of the game, but had he played, he would have forced Patterson to play much harder on D than what he did. I also feel that Samuels in the game would have affected Patterson's ability to get as many rebounds as he did. Samuel does do a decent job of blocking out, which no one did for Louisville Sunday. So, who knows what impact Samuels would have had in the game, it's all conjecture because the young man took himself out of that chance and gave all of us the opportunity to make our opinions one way or the other.

Hat's off to Louisville. It's a great rivalry and fun to banter. If one team dominated and won everygame, then it would no longer be a rivalry, thus it would be fun chiding each other about the games.