If you were one of the people who didn't expect Jarrod Polson to be a factor in No. 3 Kentucky's season-opening win join a big crowd that includes Maryland coach Mark Turgeon. "Zero," Turgeon said when asked how much his team prepared for the junior guard. "We weren't thinking about him. Then he was the whole key to the game." The 6-foot-2 Polson, who with a crew cut could have auditioned for "Hoosiers," had 10 points -- three more than he had in career at Kentucky coming into this season -- and made the hustle play and the clinching free throws as the Wildcats held off Maryland 72-69 on Friday night in the second game of the Barclays Center Classic, the first college basketball games played in the new arena in Brooklyn.
