Kyvin Goodin-Rogers had a quiet trip to the beach last week, at least offensively.Managing just nine points on UK’s three-game voyage to the Virgin Islands, including just one in her final two games combined, Goodin-Rogers had gone cold after a strong start to her college career.She had to come home to chilly Kentucky to heat back up.Goodin-Rogers poured in a game-high 19 points, including 16 in the first half of an 82-64 Kentucky win over Northern Kentucky. In fact, she exceeded her previous career high less than eight minutes in.”She was aggressive to start offensively and when she gets in a rhythm and can make some 3s for us and get to the basket and play with some energy offensively in transition, she can help us out,” Matthew Mitchell said.Goodin-Rogers was the star in an otherwise sluggish start for the Wildcats, who moved to 7-1 on Wednesday ahead of a Sunday trip to archrival Louisville. She scored 13 of UK’s first 19 points to help build an early nine-point lead, capped by the first of her two 3-pointers.She didn’t waste any time surpassing her point total from the Virgin Islands games, but she also wasn’t overly concerned about her offense from last week. Facing powerful front lines against the likes of Illinois and Oklahoma, she knew her role on UK’s Thanksgiving trip.”In the Virgin Islands I was more focused on defense than I was on offense because I needed to rebound more because the girls were so big,” Goodin-Rogers said. “And tonight I was able to just play instead of focusing on one little thing.”Goodin-Rogers certainly played in her return to Memorial Coliseum, but she and her fellow post players still have room for growth. Among UK’s regular interior rotation, only Azia Bishop had played a college game entering this season. As a result, Goodin-Rogers, Alyssa Rice and Alexis Jennings have suffered more than anyone from the game slippage that comes from so little early-season practice time with a packed schedule.”We’ve just got to take advantage of some practice time and get better in the half-court,” Mitchell said. “Our post players are seeing a lot of packed lanes and we’re not reading those situations real well in the half-court.”That places an added importance on the three days of practice UK will have leading up to a matchup with No. 7 Louisville. “I thought tonight we were a bit unfocused and we can’t play our best when we play that way,” Mitchell said. “We played well enough to win tonight and you can’t take that victory away from us, but clearly we have to play much sharper. I think their confidence level can increase between now and then with some good practice.”