NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Its top overall seed in the NCAA Tournament set, Kentucky by no means needed to win Sunday.The Wildcats didn’t play like it.Facing an Arkansas team eager to reestablish itself as a worthy challenger to the Southeastern Conference’s top dog, UK asserted its dominance one final time.”A lot of it’s just staying the course and staying what we have been doing the whole year and continue to keep a fight and not get bored of what we’re doing,” Willie Cauley-Stein said.With a 78-63 win over the No. 21/20 Razorbacks in Nashville, Tenn., the top-ranked Cats claimed the 28th SEC Tournament championship in school history to follow up the regular-season title they’d already won. The league’s other 13 schools have 27 tournament championships between them. John Calipari has coached Kentucky to three SEC Tournament titles in his six seasons.”This team has a lot of dog in it,” Calipari said. “So I don’t think they’re worried about numbers. That’s ego stuff. I don’t think they worry about it.”By toppling the SEC’s second-place team for the second time in barely two weeks, UK takes a spotless 34-0 record into the NCAA Tournament. As soon as their postgame responsibilities would allow, the Cats boarded a plane and returned to Lexington to watch the Selection Show at 6 p.m. ET on CBS and learn their March Madness path.Before then, UK did take a little time to relish the title. Confetti and streamers fell from the rafters as a stage was quickly set up at midcourt so the Cats could receive their trophy and Willie Cauley-Stein his own MVP trophy. He was joined on the All-SEC Tournament team by Aaron and Andrew Harrison.There was one part of the celebration the Cats decided to forgo.”Those aren’t the nets we’re really looking to cut down,” Cauley-Stein said. “It was just a milestone. It’s part of the process for us winning and everything, but we’re looking for something bigger. We’re looking to cut down a couple more nets in the tournament.”Most of the 20,315 fans in attendance – a Bridgestone Arena record for an SEC Tournament game – stuck around to watch the celebration, enjoying it almost as much as the first-half show put on by the Cats. UK sprinted out to an 8-0 lead behind a pair of Andrew Harrison 3s, but Arkansas quickly responded. After Michael Qualls buried a 3 of his own with 10:18 left in the first, the Cats and Hogs were tied and seemingly bound for a battle like so many the two teams waged in the 1990s.Instead, Kentucky clamped down on defense and shredded Arkansas’ patented full-court press. UK would outscore the Razorbacks 22-6 to close the half by scoring on 10 of its final 12 possessions and eventually convincing Arkansas to sink back into a zone defense. Arkansas, on the other hand, made just 1-of-13 field goals over the final 10-plus minutes.”Arkansas’s a ranked team,” Calipari said. “Talking about a top-20 team. We kind of did our thing. So proud of our guys.”Arkansas would put up a fight in the second half, coming alive offensively and at one point scoring on nine of 11 possessions. But with the Cats steady against an Arkansas team that leads the SEC in turnover margin, the game would never get closer than nine points.UK effectively toed Coach Cal’s line between aggressiveness and taking care of the ball, committing 13 turnovers and dishing out 16 assists on 25 made field goals. Aaron Harrison had a season-high six assists to go with his 11 points, while Tyler Ulis had six assists and just one turnover in 34 minutes.”With two point guards in most of the game it’s hard to press us,” Ulis said. “I can get the ball, Aaron and (Devin Booker) can also handle the pressure, and Trey (Lyles). It’s hard to press us, and then once we get in the open court it’s lobs.”For the game, UK scored 1.24 points per possession on the strength of 51-percent shooting from the field, 7 of 12 from 3 and 21 of 27 at the line. The Cats’ efficiency was crucial in weathering Arkansas’ second-half run and eventually fueled a response.”That’s just a part of basketball, really,” Aaron Harrison said. “We knew we had to make a run to break the game open, so that’s what we did. We just kept it from there.”The lead at 54-45 with 9:47 left, UK unleashed a decisive 13-3 spurt to erase all doubt and pave the way for a third victory by 15 points or more in three days at the SEC Tournament. All told, the Cats won 15 of 21 games against SEC opponents by double digits.UK’s remarkable run through the regular season and conference tournament, however, officially goes into the rearview mirror on Sunday evening.”Regardless if we were perfect or not, it’s still we’re only guaranteed one game,” Aaron Harrison said. “So it’s really the slate is clean, whether we’re 34-0 or got five losses, we still from here on out, you’re 0-0. You got to take it one game at a time.”