Rick Stansbury on Kentucky: "They were the best team in America today."

Kentucky dominated Western Kentucky in every facet of the game en route to a 95-60 blowout victory Wednesday evening. The Wildcats shot better (56% to 33% overall, 45% to 15% from three), nearly doubled the Hilltoppers on the glass (50 rebounds to 27), and had more second-chance points (16-12), bench points (27-22), points in the paint (44-32), fastbreak points (16-10) and quintuple the number of total assists (27-5).

Western Kentucky head coach Rick Stansbury put it best: the Hilltoppers had no answers for the Wildcats in the head-to-head matchup.

“Sometimes you’ve just got to say the other team is better, and they were better in every area,” Stansbury said after the loss. “I don’t have any answers for anything they did.”

The compliments didn’t stop there. In fact, Stansbury went as far as to say Kentucky played like the best team in college basketball on Wednesday.

“When they play like that — they were the best team in America today,” said Stansbury. “They come out of a game last Saturday where they beat North Carolina by 30 on a neutral court. It’s not new they did it on their own court today.”

The speed was an issue for WKU, and it didn’t help that they went cold — they shot just 32.8% from the field and 15% from three. With UK knocking down shots and dominating the boards, it was a recipe for disaster for the Hilltoppers from start to finish.

“Their speed was quicker than we anticipated,” Stansbury said. “You’ve got to score some so you can come back and play Zone. We weren’t able to score enough, had to play more Man than we wanted to. The speed of Wheeler changed the game in transition, he wore us out some. They made shots. It seemed like every rebound that was 50/50, they got every one of them. Oscar gets whatever it was, 28 of them, he got every (rebound).”

It wasn’t self-inflicted, either. At the end of the day, Western Kentucky’s issues were a product of Kentucky’s success. When the Wildcats play the way they did Wednesday, Stansbury says no one in the country can beat them.

“The things we didn’t do well, it was because of Kentucky,” Stansbury said. “We had no answers for everything they did today. I’ll repeat this: nobody would’ve beaten them today.”

Coming off a ten-point victory over Louisville and winning seven of its last eight games, Western Kentucky’s momentum ran out at Rupp Arena. And Kentucky deserves credit for making that happen.