Dominant doesn’t quite do South Carolina justice.The top-ranked Gamecocks are outscoring opponents by more than 31 points on average and feature arguably the nation’s most imposing frontline.On Sunday, Kentucky faces the task of handing South Carolina its first loss on the road. The challenge, significant as it may be, isn’t one that has the Wildcats cowering.”We’re certainly not going over there to give it the old college try and hang with them,” Matthew Mitchell said. “We’re going to go over there to win. It’s a tall task, but we have a plan. I think if we go over there and execute our plan and work our tails off, we’ll have a great chance to win.”Mitchell has reason for confidence.His team, after all, enters Sunday’s 1 p.m. ET trip to Columbia, S.C., with a No. 10 ranking, a 14-2 record and two wins over top-10 opponents. The Cats, in spite of playing without senior defensive stopper Bria Goss, are off to the same 3-0 start to Southeastern Conference play as South Carolina (15-0). UK, in other words, is pretty good too.”To think that we are some prohibitive underdog here and we don’t have a chance to win – now could we go over there and lose? There is no question,” Mitchell said. “If we don’t play well. We are certainly not going over there to just give it all we’ve got and hopefully hang in there with them. We’re going in there to win.”But to win, the Cats will have to adhere strictly to the plan Mitchell mentioned, especially inside. UK will be at a size disadvantage against the Gamecocks, who feature four players 6-foot-4 or taller and block an average of 6.2 shots per game, which means it will have compensate in other areas.”We are going to have to play real strategically sound basketball, which you can’t do in the post against them,” Mitchell said. “You just can’t go in there without a plan. You can’t just go in and shoot the ball around the basket. You’ve got to have some focus on some technical things you need to do to guard the post. You can’t just go chest to chest with them and challenge them.”The likes of Aleighsha Welch, Alaina Coates and freshman A’ja Wilson will have a field day if the Cats try that. Dawn Staley’s group might be ranked higher than it ever has been before, but the team doesn’t look all that different to Mitchell, and he means that in a good way. He would know since the Gamecocks are a permanent conference rival, meaning two annual matchups between the two teams.”When you play somebody twice a year, you get to know them, and no matter where they’re ranked, if they’re ranked No. 1 or we have played them when they are unranked, it just doesn’t matter,” Mitchell said. “They’re always real tough. Always play together, always play real hard, always make it tough on you to score. So really, they’re doing the same things that South Carolina has become known for.”Rebounding, of course, is one of those things.The Gamecocks are outrebounding opponents by an average of 11 per game, which is of particular concern considering the Cats were just bested on the boards 45-35 in a win over Auburn on Thursday. With that in mind, UK will go to work.”We’ve just got to figure out a way to be a good box-out team,” Mitchell said. “Listen, if we don’t rebound well Sunday, it’ll be a long day. They can just reach over you and go get the ball, so rebounding will be really important and we’ll do everything that we can today and Saturday morning and Sunday morning to remind them and we’ll go out there and see if we can make some improvements from Thursday night into Sunday afternoon.”To that end, Mitchell and his coaching staff reviewed film from the Auburn game and counted missed box-out assignments. The guilty parties were then assigned to run based on those missed assignments.A few weeks ago, the Cats had to do something similar when turnovers became an issue. They have responded, most notably by committing 15 or fewer turnovers in three SEC wins, which suggest similar improvement on the glass is possible.”This group has shown some ability that once they start focusing in on something, that they can do some things and correct some things,” Mitchell said. “We’ve corrected our turnovers so far in league play, so hopefully, we can have that kind of improvement on rebounds.”