The talk was out there before, but it’s intensified in recent days.Since the Wildcats’ dominance of Kansas in the Champions Classic, more columns about their prospects of going unbeaten have been written than even Kentucky fans care to read. The “can UK beat an NBA team?” debate has been kicked up a notch too, with Eric Bledsoe confidently answering yes and ESPN running a poll on the topic with close to 200,000 votes, 52 percent of which were cast for the Cats.But inside the Joe Craft Center, the mood is different. For the team that did the dominating, it’s still November and the victory over Kansas was just that: one victory.”We just have to keep working,” Andrew Harrison said. “We played really hard. A lot of their shots didn’t fall and stuff like that, so we know we still have a lot to improve on. It’s just the third game of the season. It really doesn’t mean anything.”Well, maybe it does mean something.As poorly as the Jayhawks may have shot, it’s impossible to ignore the work UK did on the defensive end in holding Kansas to 40 points, 11 made field goals and 8-of-41 shooting from 2-point range. At the very least, the Cats saw what their physical gifts can do to an opponent.”With our length and our athletic ability, there’s no reason why we can’t be a really good defensive team because of our size,” said assistant coach John Robic, filling in for John Calipari at UK’s regular media availability before a matchup with Boston University (1-1) Friday at 7 p.m. ET in Rupp Arena. “And size with athleticism equals – it could be a problem for an opponent. And that’s what it was.”It was only a problem for Kansas because UK (3-0) made it so, shrugging off the hype surrounding the first big-stage game of the season and playing team defense.”That was probably the biggest thing: how they were going to react to a high-level game against a very good top-ranked opponent,” Robic said. “We obviously played really well, and I thought everybody responded very, very well in that game.”A year ago in a similar environment, the Cats had to climb uphill after Michigan State built a 10-point lead in the Champions Classic. Last season’s freshman-laden group could never overcome the deficit, but this year’s team had no such start with all its returning experience.With the likes of Andrew Harrison leading the way, the four freshmen joining UK’s two-platoon system were able to blend in, as much as four players as talented as them can blend in anyway.”It’s good because the pressure’s not really on them so they can just go out there relaxed and play,” Andrew Harrison said. “I’m sure they had fun and they played great.”UK’s sophomore point guard has taken an active role in setting the tone for the freshmen so far, both leading by example and by stepping up his vocal presence. After he arrived on campus just before the start of the fall semester, he was unable to quickly command his team as he would have liked. Now, he’s confident and comfortable in the role.”He’s just playing more loose and more relaxed,” Aaron Harrison said. “He’s just having more fun and I think that’s the biggest thing.”In spite of that, Andrew Harrison was critical of himself after the Kansas game, taking the blame for a sluggish offensive start that saw UK make just two field goals in the first five-plus minutes.”It’s just better execution in the first half, and that’s on me,” he said. “I think we were a little tired the first little segment the blue team had or whatever, but it started working out. You get your second wind and I just tried to make sure the freshmen weren’t that nervous and stuff like that.”With the Kansas game in the rearview window, Andrew Harrison will shift his focus to making sure those freshmen realizing the work ahead of them, starting with Friday’s game against Boston University. The coaching staff will be doing the same.”Each and every day, we have to get better at what we need to do as a team, whether it’s defensively or offensively,” Robic said. “And if we do that, we know that we’re going to give it our best effort when we go out there, and hopefully tomorrow shows improvement for us.”