WATCH: A deep dive into Kentucky's impressive defensive transformation

Kentucky’s defense has improved at an unexpected rate — and it’s happened during the middle of conference play in a league considered one of the toughest in college basketball history. Over the last nine games, UK ranks 15th in the country in adjusted defensive efficiency, per BartTorvik.

How did Mark Pope pull it off, even amid various injuries? That’s what the Zoom Action crew is here to help explain. KSR’s Brandon Ramsey and I dove into the film room to show a handful of clear examples of improvement on that end of the floor. We used Kentucky’s regular season finale victory over Missouri as the “good” and compared it to the “bad” from earlier in the season. Brandon closes out the episode by providing his three biggest reasons why the Wildcats have done such a good job on defense as of late.

Dive in below!

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