Things didn’t go as planned for the 13th-ranked Auburn Tigers Saturday night as they fell to the 22nd-ranked Kentucky Wildcats in a game that ended Auburn’s 16-game win streak inside Neville Arena.

Between Kentucky’s strong defensive effort and Auburn’s cold shooting performance, the Tigers scored their second-fewest points of any game this season and their fewest in any home game this year in a 70-59 loss, which also saw Auburn fifth-year forward Jaylin Williams go down with a night-ending knee injury.

Here’s everything Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl said after Saturday’s loss to Kentucky:

Opening statement: “Kentucky can guard and they can turn it up when they want to. They outplayed us tonight; they played really well. We knew their guards were excellent, and late in the game, when it came down to just getting decent shots and keeping us at bay, they were able to do that. Reeves has killed us every year — I think I talked about it the other day. Big guard, able to make shots. We held them to 70, they average 90. We played hard and obviously made some plays defensively. Their ball pressure disrupted us. Our point guards didn’t have an assist and just one basket. Their ball pressure from their guards really wouldn’t allow us to get the ball into places on the floor that we kind of needed to be able to execute our offense or get the ball inside to Jaylin Willaims, or get the ball inside to Johni more.

I think that, while I’m disappointed in the outcome, when somebody outplays you and is better than you, hats off to them. That’s why we didn’t win.”

On Jaylin Williams’ injury: “Jaylin is arguably — he and Johni are our two best players. We were in range when he got hurt. We think he’s got to have something; we think it’s something. It’s not just a bang; he had pivot. We’ll do an MRI tomorrow and then we’ll take a look at it.”

On foul trouble disrupting Auburn’s rotation of guards: “Yeah the rotation was all disrupted. It’s partly disrupted because Denver and K.D. had been playing well, and Denver had been playing a little bit of point guard. We got into some foul trouble. We weren’t playing great at the position. There was some disruption there.”

On Tre Donaldson only playing 11 minutes: “He had four fouls. He picked up his fourth foul early in the second half.”

On Kentucky’s defense: “I thought they were more physical, I do. There were a couple of plays that I’m going to send into the league that were real physical. That’s what happens. What happens is — and I’ve seen this a couple times — when kids get challenged about not playing hard and not playing physical, well then they go out there and play hard and play physically.”

On Auburn’s shooting struggles: “No, I give Kentucky more credit for that. I would give their defense more credit for that. Yes, we missed open shots. No, we didn’t make many tough shots. Johni made some tough shots inside. I thought we could have gotten better looks. We’ve been getting better looks. If you look at the South Carolina game, two completely different games. Offensive efficiency numbers in the South Carolina game was record breaking, we basically came down and scored every time. We put the ball wherever we wanted, whenever we wanted, did whatever we wanted. Kentucky disrupted us. Their length at the rim obviously disrupted us. Their ball pressure disrupted us. They had a good scout. I really think you just go ‘alright, Kentucky guards like this, they can beat anybody.’ But we know that. Where are they ranked? They’re a nationally ranked team. They’re a three or four seed in the NCAA Tournament. They played well and we didn’t, that’s why we got beat.”

On if recent losses to Florida and Kentucky spark any concerns: “I mean, I’m not worried about it. You know how I felt about this team from the very beginning. I said this is a good team with a chance to be a very good team. What they’ve shown is they’re a very good team with a chance to maybe a great team. We weren’t very good tonight. I kind of going in sort of expected to see this at times against the best teams on our schedule. I still like our team. I do. We’re going to have to, if Jaylin’s out, we’re going to have to figure some things out. I think we have guys that will step up. But Jaylin Williams is — he and Johni Broome are our two best players. So if he’s out for a little while, it’s got to be next man up. That’s a significant loss.”

On how playing without Jaylin Williams could impact Auburn: “Jaylin Williams is Auburn’s all time winningest player ever by a bunch of games. And he’s having a phenomenal senior season. And it’s not like I’m giving the scouting report away. But when Jaylin Williams has played well, we’ve won. And he’s only really not played well in about four or five games. Those happening to be the games we lost. The math’s kind of scary. Give Jaylin Williams credit. The depth on this team and the chemistry on this team — we’ll put it together. We’ll get something, we’ll be ready for the next one.”

On what’s still ahead: “Well listen, we play Georgia next Saturday. We get a bye this week. We need a bye. Our kids, listen, our guys, they’ve been grinding. I’m telling you. I’m so proud of them for the position that they’re in right now. I really am. We’ll take a couple days off this week. They need it. They’ve earned it. We’ll see if we can regroup a little bit. We need to get better guard play. It’s clear. It’s clear we need to get better guard play. We’ll see if those guys can get it all figured out.”

On moving on from a “demoralizing” loss to Kentucky: “This was not a demoralizing game. That’s a good team that played a really good game that played a really good game. What’s demoralizing about a loss to Kentucky when they play well. I can’t even begin to answer that. Do I look demoralized to you? Anybody think I’m demoralized?

The point is, and this is what I want you guys to understand. Our guys have been achieving at a high level. They’ve been, and oh by the way, you know what’s funny? I looked at the schedule the other day. We’re playing South Carolina. They’re 20-3. They’ve won seven in a row. I said to my son Steven. I said, ‘You know what? This might be the easiest game of the next four.’ Looking at Kentucky here, even going on the road to Georgia, then going on the road to Tennessee. For these kids to have grinded and be in the position? Guys, come on. Demoralized?”

On Auburn winning the turnover battle, but giving up more points off turnovers: “They don’t turn it over. They turned it over 12 times which is more than they usually do. We were real organized in some of our running and jump and there were times late we probably should have doubled. We did a couple times and turned them over. They had pretty good guard play. They stopped running ball screens and that was probably a good idea because we were just hitting them in the ball screen, double-teaming them in the ball screen and they just started doing their other things instead. Spreading the floor and spacing out and attacking us one one-on-one. Reeves kinda took over. Thiero really stepped up in a big, big way and outplayed us at his position. If you told me we’re gonna hold Kentucky to only four 3-pointers, I’d say we would beat ‘em. So give Kentucky credit for finding other ways to win. They had an injury to one of their kids and they did a really good job of finding a way to win another way.”