Willie Cauley-Stein heard all about LaDontae Henton.Entering a matchup between Kentucky and Providence, the senior forward was averaging better than 24 points per game. John Calipari, knowing Cauley-Stein would shadow Henton to start, may have exaggerated the numbers just a bit.”I was told he averaged 28, 30 points,” Cauley-Stein said, drawing laughs from reporters surrounding him.Whether it was 24, 28 or 30, Henton didn’t come close on Sunday with Cauley-Stein – who had 11 points and six rebounds – guarding him. He managed only three points on 1-of-8 shooting, frustrated continually by Cauley-Stein during his 25 minutes and Marcus Lee during his 15. With Henton handcuffed, UK (7-0) surged past Providence (6-1) in a 58-38 slugfest that featured just 54 possessions, seven fewer than any of the Wildcats’ first six games.”It was a good game,” Coach Cal said. “And they did what teams are going to do. They’re going to try to move the ball, try to go into the shot clock, they’re going to sag in a man or a zone, they’re going to play like everybody else is going to play us.”It was no ordinary player who hounded Henton. Cauley-Stein may be a 7-footer, but he had no issues chasing the 6-6 Henton around the perimeter, leading Providence head coach Ed Cooley to call him a “one-man wrecking crew.””I think they put probably one of the best defensive players I’ve seen in a long time in Cauley-Stein (on Henton),” Cooley said. “He’s got quick feet, he’s long, he jumps over mountains. It was a tough matchup.”That length and versatility might be the most eye-catching facet of UK’s defense, which held an opponent to under 30-percent shooting for the fourth time this season, but both coaches agreed it was a player Cauley-Stein’s polar opposite in size who flipped Sunday’s game.With the visiting Friars determined to play a half-court game and UK sluggish after a 6-0 burst to start the game, 5-9 Tyler Ulis checked in and made life miserable for anyone unfortunate enough to be guarded by him. In doing so, he drew comparisons to some rather talented Calipari players past.”I’ve had three Chicago guys do what Tyler Ulis did today, which is change the game,” Calipari said. “I had Derrick Rose, Anthony Davis, and Tyler Ulis,” Calipari said. “Very rarely do you see a guy walk in and just change the game. Like, change the whole flow of it. And he did that today.”Ulis’ statistics hardly jump off the page. He finished with six points, three rebounds and his first-career block, but that hardly captures his impact.”I think he’s a special player,” Cooley said. “He’s got the ‘it.’ He’s a player who I think you guys are going to see really grow. He does a good job guarding the ball, he’s low to the ground and he’s got some toughness. He’s a player that has the ultimate ‘it.’ “Ulis had three of UK’s 12 steals and set the tone as the Cats forced 18 turnovers, boosting their season defensive turnover percentage to .271, ninth nationally. He was often assigned to point guard Kris Dunn, who played 29 minutes in spite of battling an ankle injury all week. Dunn had 10 turnovers on his own, a career high by a wide margin.”Tyler played great defense,” Andrew Harrison said. “He’s really a pest on the defensive end, and that really picked up the energy of the team.”Harrison played a solid game of his own, posting six points, four assists and four steals in just 20 minutes. With UK’s platoon system, which Calipari went away from in stretches for various reasons, the Cats look dangerous at every position. The two-headed point-guard monster of Harrison and Ulis has a strong argument as the scariest of the bunch.”It’s tough, especially when you go back and forth and you don’t really get tired throughout the game, and you have to play with energy or Coach is going to take you out,” Harrison said. “It would be hard.”UK’s opponents so far this season would agree. The Cats have now won seven games by an average margin of 34.4 points and have not yet allowed a team to shoot 40 percent from the field. That adds up to holding opponents to 0.672 points per possession, a total good enough for second nationally behind only Louisville.Alex Poythress, however, believes UK trails no one when it comes to picking out the nation’s best defensive team.”When we’re all playing like we can, I feel like it’s hard for teams to score on us,” Poythress said. “We’re so big, so long, so active, we can switch and really do anything we really need to do on defense.”