Tip-off: Thursday, 7:00 p.m. ET
Line: Kentucky -2.5, Total: 124

Kentucky tries to end a three-game road losing skid Thursday when they visit a Georgia team that has been quite a profitable wager over the past six weeks.

The Wildcats have won eight of their past 11 games SU, but have covered in just four of those victories (4-7 ATS). The Bulldogs have been just the opposite, dropping four of their past six SU, but posting an impressive 10-1 ATS mark in their past 11 contests. Kentucky is just 5-11 ATS in conference play while Georgia is 11-5 ATS versus SEC foes this season. Although the Wildcats are 14-4 SU in the past 18 meetings in this series, the Bulldogs are 4-3 ATS in the past seven meetings.

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Kentucky is just 10-16 ATS this season, including 3-9 ATS in non-home games and 3-7 ATS in true road games. The Wildcats have outshot their opponents by a wide margin (48.5% FG to 38.9% FG), but the defense has not been the same since the nation's block leader, C Nerlens Noel (10.5 PPG, 9.5 RPG, 4.4 BPG), suffered a season-ending knee injury. In five games since Noel's injury, UK is allowing 73.8 PPG, including 80.5 PPG in two road losses. The Wildcats have four other players averaging double-figures in scoring. Freshman SG Archie Goodwin (13.8 PPG, 4.5 RPG) has four straight games of 11+ points, pumping in 14.8 PPG during this streak. Freshman PF Alex Poythress (11.9 PPG, 6.1 RPG) has barely missed a shot in his past three games, going 18-for-24 (75%) from the floor leading to 15.3 PPG. But sophomore SF Kyle Wiltjer (10.8 PPG, 4.3 RPG) has been ice-cold with just 3.7 PPG on 3-of-14 FG (1-of-6 threes) in his past three contests. But Wiltjer made the most of limited minutes in last season's two-game sweep of Georgia, scoring a combined 15 points on 5-of-7 threes in just 27 minutes of action. Sophomore PG Ryan Harrow (10.2 PPG, 3.2 APG) has played pretty well lately with 14.3 PPG on 51% FG during a four-game streak of double-digit points.

Georgia likes to play low-scoring affairs, averaging just 60.4 PPG (314th in nation) on 41.4% FG (267th in D-I), while allowing only 61.4 PPG (38.6% FG). The Bulldogs have limited visiting teams to 58.4 PPG in 17 home games, where they have compiled an 11-6 SU mark (7-6 ATS). But although they have just 60.3 PPG in SEC play, Georgia is coming off a conference-best 78 points in Saturday's 78-68 win over Tennessee. The Bulldogs made 8-of-16 threes and 22-of-26 free throws in that surprising victory, but only two players scored 10+ points. Explosive sophomore SG Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (18.0 PPG, 6.9 RPG) pumped in 25 points (4-of-8 threes) with nine rebounds and four steals. Although he's the team's only player scoring at least 8.0 PPG this season and has reached double-figures in all 29 contests, Caldwell-Pope tallied just 16 points on 7-of-24 shooting (29%) in two losses to Kentucky last season. Freshman SG Charles Mann (6.6 PPG, 3.0 RPG) was the other double-figure scorer on Saturday with 18 points, eight assists and four rebounds. Mann shoots a poor 36% FG this season, but has done a great job getting to the free-throw line in the past three games, making 24-of-32 attempts (75%). Sophomore PF Nemanja Djurisic (7.7 PPG, 3.9 RPG) is the team's best frontcourt scorer, but he shoots just 39% from the floor and 29% on threes this season. He scored 10 points with five rebounds in last season's home loss to Kentucky, but followed that up with just two points (1-of-4 FG) in 16 minutes in the defeat in Lexington.