Mark Pope's short-handed Kentucky basketball team was routed by Alabama on Friday in an SEC Tournament quarterfinal in Nashville.

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The Cats are hot with their first three-game win streak of the season, moving on to face Alabama in the quarterfinals.

The bad news: Kentucky’s 99-70 loss to Alabama on Friday night was the Wildcats’ worst loss, by margin, in the history of the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament. The good news: Kentucky basketball will not play Alabama or Auburn or Florida or Tennessee or any of UK’s fellow 15 SEC hoops members for the rest of the 2024-25 season.

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UK was without fifth-year guard Lamont Butler for the contest after he reinjured his left shoulder on Thursday night during Kentucky’s SEC Tournament second round win over Oklahoma. Prior to Friday’s game, Pope offered a positive injury update on Butler, indicating that Butler will be back for Kentucky’s NCAA Tournament run next week.

Mark Pope delivered good news to the Kentucky Wildcats faithful ahead of March Madness, updating the status of injured guard Lamont Butler.