Good teams, they just keep on playing.Good shooters, they just keep on shooting.When Kentucky found itself down 14 early in the second half against perennial power and top-10 Baylor, the Wildcats refused to go away.”It was a very, very poor start to the game, and we came back and really played a tough 20 minutes there in the second half, and I’m very proud of them,” Matthew Mitchell said.When Jennifer O’Neill had the ball in her hands having missed her first 10 3-point tries but with a chance to take the biggest shot of the night, she did.”Really my teammates had a lot of belief in me and told me to keep shooting and fed me the ball,” O’Neill said. “So I was going to keep shooting.Even though she was aware she had missed her first 10 tries from deep, O’Neill followed through on that when she received a pass from Makayla Epps with 1:17 left. With UK having overcome that deficit to claim a one-point lead, O’Neill rose and fired from the right wing. “I told her, ‘I was going to keep feeding you regardless,’ ” said Epps, who had 12 points and eight rebounds. “She’s the best shooter on the team. We don’t play here often. We play here one time a year. So shots are going to fall; shots aren’t going to fall. I had the utmost belief in her and I knew that once she got hot she was going to hit.”She did, sending an announced crowd of 22,075 into a frenzy and giving UK (2-0) a four-point lead the Cats wouldn’t relinquish in a 74-64 win over No. 8/7 Baylor (1-1). In doing so, UK picked up the first top-10 win of the season and completed the 10th-largest comeback in program history with a 50-point second-half outburst.”That’s a great win for us,” Mitchell said. “We have a long way to go as a basketball team, but learned a lot tonight, have a lot of room for improvement, but it’s great to get into an atmosphere like this.”Whatever UK becomes as a team, O’Neill will play a key role. The senior guard, who finished with 22 points 11 months after dropping a school-record 43 against Baylor, better keep shooting if the Cats’ fast-paced offense is going to work.”They were running back to a packed lane and we were shooting in rhythm wide open 3-point shots, and our offense, we have to shoot that shot, and Jennifer is a great shooter and has been shooting the ball great,” Mitchell said ” … I have no idea if she’s missed them, made them. I’m just coaching every play, and I was telling her every time out to keep shooting the ball.”O’Neill was 0 for 6 from 3 and 1 of 8 overall in the first half, but she was hardly the only reason UK went into the locker room trailing 34-24.”I give our team a lot of credit because I’m telling you, it was not good in the first half, as you all could see,” Mitchell said. “It was disjointed, there was no rhythm, there was no focus offensively, there was no execution.”Due to that lack of execution, the Cats shot just 30 percent from the field and committed 15 turnovers. Linnae Harper was the lone bright spot, scoring nine of her 11 points to help keep UK within striking distance.”I think in the first half Kentucky beat Kentucky,” Epps said.There would be no repeat performance in the second half, though the Lady Bears scored six of eight points out of the break to take that 14-point lead.”I think going into the second half Matthew had said enough about what we did in the first half, so we knew what we had to do,” O’Neill said. “Yeah, we were aware that we were down, but the game wasn’t out of reach.”Climbing their way out of a big hole, the Cats were buoyed by a crowd that never gave in either. Thousands filled Rupp in spite of freezing temperatures and snow and they weren’t about to go down without a fight.”When you are emotionally down,” Mitchell said, “when you’re playing not well and you’re sort of clearly discombobulated, and we, I thought, were lacking energy and emotion there as we were starting to decline in the first half, there’s no question for us, once we started playing with some energy and the crowd responds, it pumps you up.”UK will count on its home crowd one last time on Wednesday at 11 a.m. against Morehead State before four games away from Lexington, first at Central Michigan and then for games against Illinois, Oklahoma and South Florida as part of the Paradise Jam Island Tournament. For all those games, the Cats will look to do what they did on Monday: combine winning and learning.”Just the way the schedule hits us now, we don’t have a lot of practice time, so we’ve got to make the most of our time here and try to get a little bit better and see if we can win some games while we’re still learning,” Mitchell said. “But that’s why this one is so big and such a great win that will still show up at the end of the season, but we’re not a finished product.”