Bozich: Tubby's Cats leave Cards feeling Big Blue

You can call it ugly. Or boring. Call it something unprintable if you like. Just make certain you call the basketball rivalry between the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville what it has officially become: Tubby's World. A world where UK coach Tubby Smith makes the University of Louisville basketball team play the game the way he wants to play the game. A world where he makes UofL fans wince every time a Cardinal player launches another no-hope shot. A world where Smith can get seven points from his two best players and still beat UofL by a dozen (61-49). A world where Smith can stir 44 productive minutes from two seniors (Lukasz Orbzut and Sheray Thomas) whose presence usually makes Kentucky fans groan. A world where one of Smith's fearless freshmen (guard Jodie Meeks) makes more three-point shots (four) than everybody on Rick Pitino's troubled team (three, or 3 for 24, to be perfectly blunt).

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