The Kentucky Wildcats play the Kansas Jayhawks on Tuesday in the 2014 Champions Classic. Tipoff is at 9:00 p.m. ET. Watch the live stream below.
No. 1 Kentucky is 2-0 after wins against Grand Canyon (85-45) and Buffalo (71-52). While Kentucky has a more experienced team - thanks to returning players such as Willie Cauley-Stein, Dakari Johnson and Alex Poythress - this season, coach John Calipari wants to see more out of freshman forward Karl-Anthony Towns, who's averaged 5.5 points and 6.5 rebounds per game over the last two contests.
"Well, we have got to get him the ball more when he is open," Calipari told the school website. "He has got to get the ball in a position where he can score. He has got to play more to the scheming we are doing on offense or defense and he is not. He is kind of breaking things off. Like he is the odd man out on a lot of stuff because he hasn't learned this is five guys playing off of each other the same way and if one guy goes south it is a basket, it's a dunk."
Calipari also said he wasn't pleased with how his team performed in the first half against Buffalo, something which will cost them Tuesday's game if they sputter in the beginning again.
"They (Kansas) are a top-five team and predicted to be in the Final Four. They are that good," he said. "If we play like we did in the first half last game we will get smashed. If we play like we did in the second half we have a chance because you have to fight on every possession."
No. 5 Kansas, meanwhile, is 1-0 following their 69-59 win on Friday over UC Santa Barbara. The Jayhawks' undersized team will look to Cliff Alexander and Perry Ellis to provide them with a presence in the paint.
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