The Kentucky Wildcats will be without their best player for the first game of the NCAA Tournament, at least.

'We were obviously fortunate at the end.'

The eighth-ranked Kentucky Wildcats beat the No. 9 Kansas Jayhawks 71-63 on Saturday in the SEC-Big 12 Challenge.

Top-ranked Duke went down early in the week. No. 2 Michigan and No. 4 Virginia, the last of Division I's unbeaten teams, both fell over the weekend.

Tagovailoa, one of the prime contenders for the Heisman Trophy, has thrown 37 touchdown passes with only four interceptions to rank second nationally in passing efficiency.

The Blue Devils seem to have it all -- athletes, scorers, defenders and rebounders.

No. 12 Kentucky looked as though it was on the verge of dropping its second game of the season after Missouri shut down the Wildcats' offense and kept UK out of the end zone for the first 60 minutes of the game.

Instead of cannibalizing each other, SEC teams are propping each other up, buttressed by the league's quality nonconference performance.

Five teams entered the Top 25, including No. 17 Kentucky for the first time since 2007.

When an ESPN host told Tebow he's 'supposed to be the inspirational one,' he responded, 'Not always!'