AI-assisted summary

The Kentucky Wildcats basketball team is struggling to find its identity under coach Mark Pope.

Injuries and the lack of a true point guard have compounded problems for the team.

Pope expressed disappointment and took responsibility for the team's "discombobulated" performance.

NEW YORK — It’s quite possible to have watched every Kentucky basketball game this season and still not know what you’re seeing. The Wildcats don’t seem to fully know, either.

They are a team without an identity: not physical enough to impose their will defensively, and maybe, just maybe, not capable of consistently playing the 3-point-happy style offensively that coach Mark Pope is intent on establishing.

That was certainly the case Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden as Michigan

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