By Connor Link, UK AthleticsJon Lipsitz hatched the idea on Wednesday, but he waited tell his team. With No. 5 Florida visiting on Sunday and the potential for a crucial win, Lipsitz and his coaching staff decided to change formations to match the Gators’ 3-5-2 look.On Saturday, he told his players about the plan.”Literally, we spent about 10 minutes on a board and 10 minutes on a practice field going over it, and said, ‘Just play,’ ” Lipsitz said.With minimal rehearsal time, the Kentucky players answered their coach’s challenge.”(The new formation) made it man-to-man, made you responsible individually, and made us play straight-up soccer with them — and it worked,” said senior defender Arin Gilliland. “Our team completely bought in. We hadn’t practiced it, not one day at training.”Once the players bought into Lipsitz’s blueprint, the results quickly followed. Substitute forward Zoe Swift found the back of the net in the game’s 33rd minute, sparking a momentum swing heavily in UK’s favor.”In the locker room, Jon talked to us about how we just need to stay strong and need to just play our game,” Swift said. “When we have our moments, we’ve got to finish them. That’s what we did, and we executed what he told us to do.”With a season-high 1,172 home fans cheering them on, the Wildcats were able to turn that energy into a second goal less than 20 minutes later. The score would remain 2-0 for the rest of the contest, propelling Kentucky (10-5-0, 5-3-0 Southeastern Conference) to victory over the SEC’s perennial power. “The past two weeks of practice have been unbelievable with us,” said senior midfielder Stuart Pope, who scored her first goal of the season. “Every detail’s been taken care of. We’ve really picked up… our desire to really make a statement in the SEC and in the nation.”After consecutive SEC road losses to Missouri and Texas A&M, the Wildcats have looked like a different ball club over the past three games.”We got really mad,” Pope said. “We said, ‘If things aren’t going to go our way on certain things, then we’re just going to make sure there’s no possible way it could go the other way.’ We’re not letting outside factors influence us anymore, and we’re focusing on details every day in practice.”With three consecutive shutout wins over South Carolina, Ole Miss, and Florida, junior midfielder Courtney Raetzman — who on assisted Pope’s goal — echoed her captain’s statement.”We’ve come a long way since the beginning of the season, that’s for sure,” Raetzman said. “You can tell with more of our confidence in our style of play, we’re more comfortable. We just definitely turned it around, and what a good time to do it.”With only three more games remaining before postseason play, the Wildcats are clicking at just the right time. Sunday’s victory over Florida proved that they can compete with the best teams in the country. However, Lipsitz was quick to point out that at the end of the day, it’s just another win on the season. “It means a win,” Lipsitz said. “It means three points in the conference standings. It means a lot of help with our RPI for the NCAA’s. As soon as we hit 12:01 a.m. tomorrow — and I will tell them this — it means a win. I’ll let them enjoy it until then, but at 12:01 on Monday it’s three points.”