By Lindsay Travis, CoachCal.comLOUISVILLE, Ky. – Willie Cauley-Stein’s dunk will be the play fans remember as the one that turned a first-half nail-biter into a double-digit round-of-32 win over Cincinnati.As big as it was, the players say it was the moment that followed that precipitated the run UK used to take a seven-point lead into halftime.In fact, they can remember the exact time left on the clock. “I think our identity was shown, I think, with 2:44 left in the first half,” Karl-Anthony Towns said.”We said it in the huddle when there’s 2:44 left in the half, ‘We have to push it. We have to push it now,’ ” Cauley-Stein said.There was a media timeout immediately after Cauley-Stein’s dunk and before he stepped to the line to convert the and-one. In the huddle, the Cats weren’t so happy with themselves as they led eighth-seeded Cincinnati by a score of just 25-24.”We were really upset with ourselves and we just told ourselves we wanted to lock down and we wanted to get all stops and capitalize offensively,” Towns said.UK would do just that, reeling off a 10-point run en route to a 64-51 win to advance past the Bearcats and into the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16. In the huddle that preceded it, John Calipari wasn’t the one delivering the buckle-down message.”We looked at each other in the huddle and Coach Cal just listened to us talk to each other,” Towns said. “We literally came together and we said, ‘We need to get stops. We can’t let this happen. We can’t keep letting this happen.’ And we made a goal for ourselves. We didn’t want them to score one point for the rest of the half and we did that.”As significant as the huddle was in regards to Saturday’s outcome, it was perhaps just as encouraging for UK’s prospects of building on their NCAA-record 36-0 start to the season. The Cats seem to be seizing control of their own destiny. “Coach wants us to be empowered,” Trey Lyles said. “Coach wants it to be our team. We’re starting to do that now and at the end of the first half we came together as a group. We told each other that we needed to lock down defensively and if we do that defensively then the lead will push. You saw that at the end the half and then the second half we did that as well.”Double the energyWhen the moment gets big and the Cats need energy there’s one, no, two players the team looks to: the Harrison twins.  “(Aaron) and his brother are kind of the throttle on the team,” Willie Cauley-Stein said prior to the Cats’ matchup with Cincinnati. “If they’re saying they’re going to come out playing different, then they’re going to come out playing different. In return, everybody’s going to come out playing different. They’re kind of the fuel to the fire.” Against an unrelenting Bearcats squad, the Harrisons combined for 18 points, 13 for Aaron and five for Andrew. The all-clutch shooting guard went 3 of 7 from deep, while the sophomore point guard had two baskets and a pair of assists in 26 minutes of playing time. Oh, and Andrew Harrison had zero turnovers, his third turnover-free game in a row.  “It’s ridiculous how much they both improved,” UK head coach John Calipari said. “They’re both winning players now. They’re both winning players. They both are not afraid to make game-winning shots because they’re not afraid to miss game-winning shots. They’ll make free throws. They’re both defending better.” Aaron Harrison picked up a rare technical against the Bearcats that helped energize the team. Maybe not as much as Willie Cauley-Stein’s poster-worthy dunk, but it helped get the Cats going. “Yeah, anytime some stuff like that happens, it doesn’t matter who, you’re going to automatically be juiced,” Cauley-Stein said. “Anytime somebody is talking trash to you you’re going to go back at them.” After missing both attempted 3s against Hampton and scoring his only three points from the free-throw line, Aaron Harrison found his way out of a shooting slump Saturday.  “Aaron can do other things like get to the rim, so once he hit some layups and stuff like that the goal opens up for him,” Andrew Harrison said.  On a team packed to the rafters with talent, Coach Cal thinks the twins don’t get enough credit for what they do and what they did last season. “They carried us to the final game last year, those two,” Calipari said. “You watch the tapes. Those two carried us to where we were. Struggled a little bit in the final game. We never would have gotten into the final game without those two. Now they’re starting to do the same thing again. It says something about who they are as players in their heart to win and their will to win.”Booker not worried about shooting slump So far in the 2015 NCAA Tournament, Devin Booker has not reloaded a 3 one single time. He’s attempted seven shots and they’ve hit every part of the rim, but none have fallen. You would think the normally hot-handed freshman would be worried that his shot hasn’t found its way in. But you’d be incorrect. “It’s nothing new to me, but like I said, I’ve stressed it, that’s the least of my concerns right now as long as my team is winning,” Booker said. “If we’re finding other ways to win, that’s definitely fine with me.” The shots may not be falling right now, but Coach Cal wants the freshman to keep shooting.  “We told him after the game, hey, you’ve got to keep shooting because there’s going to be a game we need him to make shots or we can’t win,” Calipari said. “It just didn’t happen to be this one or the first one. You can miss all these ones. It doesn’t matter. The next one’s coming up, we may need you to make some shots.” Booker didn’t go scoreless vs. Cincinnati. His 3s weren’t falling but his 2s were and the freshman shooting guard found other ways to produce for his team, such as driving to the basket. “If my shot is not falling I try to assert myself in different ways, whether that’s defending, rebounding, or like you said, attacking the rim,” Booker said. “That’s what I did today in transition. It kind of opened up a few times for me and I took advantage of it.” In addition to his six points, the Southeastern Conference Sixth Man of the Year had four rebounds in 22 minutes of play. And post-Cincinnati, he feels like his shot will come soon.  “I think it’s going in,” Booker said. “It feels good. I actually don’t know what it is, but I’m going to keep shooting and I feel like we’re going to be all right. “I don’t know if it’s a good thing I’m not on fire, but like I said, it’s going to come along. I know it is. My team trusts me, the whole coaching staff trusts me.”