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NEW YORK -- John Calipari sounded like a typical college student. He cant wait for finals to be over. Hes not thinking winter vacation, though. Hes thinking basketball. All basketball.I am so happy because Wednesday will be our last finals. I dont have to worry about anything academically, Calipari said after No. 6 Kentucky beat Hofstra 96-73 on Sunday.Well go 29 straight days, four-a-days. Nothing to worry about except basketball. Right now we got to get through Wednesday. Theyre off tomorrow, get through these finals, but we just have a lot of work to do.Malik Monk scored 20 points, Isaiah Briscoe had 19 and Kentucky took control with a 26-3 run spanning halftime to beat the Pride in the Brooklyn Hoops Winter Festival at Barclays Center.DeAaron Fox had 15 points and Bam Adebayo added 14 for Kentucky (9-1). The Wildcats closed the first half on a 12-0 run and opened the second with a 14-3 spurt to go ahead 62-36 with 16 minutes to play.We came out. We were playing good defense. The other team was making shots, Briscoe said. We kept calm knowing sooner or later well get into their legs and theyll start to get tired and well make our run. Right before halftime we did that.The Pride (6-5), who came in having won four of five, stayed with the Wildcats for 16 minutes, trailing 36-33 with 4 minutes left in the first half. Deron Powers had 18 points for Hofstra in the first meeting between the schools.When I walked off the floor to locker room, I said to my staff that Id love to have the last 3 minutes of the first half back, Hofstra coach Joe Mihalich said. The last three minutes of the first half and the first 4 minutes of the second half was a 26-3 run and that was the difference in the game.Monk had seven of the points in the 12-0 run and Adebayo had six in the 14-3 run. Kentucky started dominating inside, finishing with a 48-28 advantage in the paint, and on the perimeter, shooting 51.4 percent overall and 8 of 23 from 3-point range.This team has a long way to go. Were young. We show it. Were talented, Calipari said. We do some good things in stretches and then we do some bad things in stretches. We need to get in the gym and we need to get to the camp part of our season which is two- and three-a-days. They get time to sleep, to eat, well give video time, phone time. Theyve got to have that or theyll climb walls, but the reality of it is lets get down to getting better.Justin Wright-Foreman had 14 points for Hofstra and Rokas Gustys added 13.When the coaches shook hands after the game, Mihalich told Calipari he thinks Kentucky can win it all.BIG PICTUREHofstra: This game would have been a better matchup last season for the Pride. They had a senior-laden lineup that won the Colonial Athletic Association regular season title. ... Gustys came into the game leading the nation in rebounding at 13.5 per game. He had eight against the Wildcats. ... The Pride finished with 14 turnovers. They came in averaging 12.3 per game and Kentucky came in forcing 18.9 per game. The Wildcats scored 23 points off Hofstras turnovers.Kentucky: The Wildcats came into the game averaging 13.5 seconds per possession, fourth-best in the country. ... Monk has scored in double figures in all 10 games. ... The Wildcats are 3-1 all-time at Barclays Center. ... Through nine game Monk is on pace to beat Jamal Meeks season mark for 3-pointers and Fox is on pace to beat Tyler Ulis season mark for assists.BLUE NATIONAs usual, Kentucky fans were in the majority in a game played in the New York area. The crowd was announced at 7,514 and a good percentage wore Kentucky blue.SECOND CHANCEThe one stat that went Hofstras way was second-chance points. 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PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Chris Tillman was the difference Saturday night -- and it wouldnt be a stretch to say the right-hander has been the difference for the Baltimore Orioles in the AL East race so far this season.Tillman became the American Leagues second 13-game winner, backed by J.J. Hardys two-run homer, in Baltimores 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night.The Orioles, who have won four straight overall, are 9-0 in Tillmans starts against their division rivals.Team wins are important, said Tillman, who has given up one run or fewer in his last three starts. All the personal stuff goes by the wayside when it comes to winning ballgames. Thats our approach and its good to be a part of it.Tillman (13-2) gave up one run and four hits and struck out three in seven innings. Only Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox has more wins (14) among major league pitchers.Brad Brach threw a perfect eighth and Zach Britton struck out two in the ninth for his 29th save as the Orioles maintained a two-game lead over the Boston Red Sox.Hardys fourth home run of the season came off Matt Moore (5-7) after Matt Wieters two-out double in the second.(Tillman) had good command. He had three walks, but it didnt feel like it, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. He was the difference. Its not very often that a two-run homer stands up, but it did.Logan Morrison scored Tampa Bays run after a leadoff triple in the fourth that was originally called a home run before being overturned by an umpire replay review. The ball was ruled to have hit the top of the wall in left field and back into play, and Morrison was given a triple. Steven Souza Jr. then drove in Morrison with a single, but it was the final hit of the game for the Rays, who have lost eight straight and 24 of 27.It stinks when you lose a ballgame onn one pitch, Rays manager Kevin Cash said.dddddddddddd That kind of sums it up how its been going for us.Moore, who has two of the Rays three wins since June 15, pitched 7 1/3 innings, his longest start of the season, giving up two runs on five hits.HARDY SHOULDERHardy hit his second home run in nine at-bats after hitting two in his first 155 at-bats, and stretched his personal hitting streak to nine games. It is a direct result of his healed left shoulder. Im not thinking of the shoulder at all, he said. I know I was a lot last year, but Im not thinking about it anymore. I think thats the biggest thing.TRAINERS ROOMOrioles: OF Hyun Soo Kim (right hamstring) was out of the lineup for the second straight game. Showalter said it will determined after a workout Sunday if Kim will need to go on the disabled list. ... Showalter said RHP Darren ODay (strained right hamstring) looked crisp during a bullpen session and will take part in a simulated game Tuesday.Rays: INF Steve Pearce (strained right hamstring) started a rehab assignment with Class A Charlotte. ... OF Desmond Jennings (strained left hamstring) continued taking batting practice and has started andy (2-1) makes his first major league start in Sundays series fin