Like many of you I am tired of the constant injuries UK has. I think I heard from the Mitch statement UK hasn’t had a full healthy roster all year? It sure seems like injuries are more prevalent at UK than most places. Has anyone ever actually took the time to look into this? Is there any merit to UK has an issue with this or Cal uses injury as an excuse to hide other problems? I was wondering if there is any real tangible evidence or just a feeling as fans we get.

Alabama shot two threes in the final six seconds to get to 100 points. I know Bama will flameout in the tournament against a team with a pulse, but I like how they don’t hold the ball at the end of games. They play to get up as many shots as possible, regardless of the score. This is the eighth time that Bama has scored triple digits. Scores are up this year across the board, but Oats knows offense and can beat mediocre to bad teams the way you’re supposed to. Of course, they were blown out against Tennessee and Auburn.

There’s a large enough sample size now to call a spade a spade. @ Arky and Providence last year were the only big games he has been good. Hope I eat my words by the end of the second half but I’ll be surprised.

This team will never rank highly in defensive ppg because of pace of play but we saw yesterday why nobody should want to
run with UK. The only defensive metric that matters to me is margin of victory and yesterday's score could have been 130-85 if our coaches had wanted to embarass them enough.

Nice move for the Cats, up 2 spots with a +0.21 score movement, which is great this deep into the season.

Here’s the latest update:

1. Arizona 2.94
2. Houston 2.91
3. UCONN 2.88
4. Tennessee 2.74
5. Auburn 2.73
6. Iowa St 2.43
7. Purdue 2.36
8. Kansas 2.33
9. Alabama 2.29
10. Marquette 2.14
11. Kentucky 1.90705
12. Michigan St 1.90704
13. BYU 1.79
14. TCU 1.64
15. UNC 1.63
16. Duke 1.61
17. Creighton 1.57
18. Colorado 1.55
19. Virginia 1.434
20. Mississippi St 1.427
21. St Mary’s 1.41
22. Baylor 1.401
23. Gonzaga 1.400
24. FAU 1.37
25. Texas 1.36


Rest of SEC
33. Florida
42. Mississippi
63. LSU
76. South Carolina
86. ATM
94. Missouri
97. Arkansas
106. Georgia
194. Vandy


I’ve got Mississippi St -1 on Tuesday. Another tough one.

Feel like I crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to.

I’ll always have today.

Build on it, please. Go get a top 3 seed.

He needs to stop shooting. If not, he needs to find a place on the bench!

Is it time to also start believing in the Wildcats?

Maybe.

They've always been college basketball's most talented team with the most future NBA Draft picks on the roster -- but they're still just 6-7 in the first two quadrants with a Q3 loss to Wilmington also on the résumé. They've lost four times at home this season, twice to currently unranked teams. When they're bad, they're bad. And they've been bad, relative to most expectations, at least, for much of this season.

But Calipari has been through this before.

In 2014, he also had a super-talented roster, but mostly shaky team, that finished 12-6 in the SEC and got a No. 8 seed from the selection committee. Then the NCAA Tournament started, and Kentucky beat Kansas State, Wichita State, Louisville, Michigan and Wisconsin to advance all the way to the national championship game. To be clear, I'm not necessarily predicting something similar. But what I am doing is insisting that the talent is in place to do something similar, and I'll never completely rule it out pretty much regardless of what happens between now and Selection Sunday simply because of the talent that's available.

College basketball rankings: Kentucky, though confounding, is talented enough for deep NCAA Tournament run

The Wildcats have been bad at times, but their dismantling of Alabama showed what they're capable of doing

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If he is Cal’s replacement. I know he is at Baylor and not a blue blood but they have roughly the same record we do this season and he’s only won the B12 regular season like once since he’s been there.

I know he had one really good team but that was the same season that many say didn’t count.

Hopefully other options open up.

When UK loses a big game then Calipari got outcoached.
When UK wins a big game then the players played well.
BS
Can't have it both ways. UK defense has improved 45 spots in a week in Kenpom. That's coaching.
UK won tonight because Calipari coached circles around Pearl tonight.

They LOVE bringing up stats for his entire UK career. Examples:

"Cal has a ton of NCAA tournament wins since he got to UK."
"Cal has brought so much success to UK."
"Cal has multiple Final Fours."

Do you notice anything? The stats supporting those arguments are things Cal did, like, 10 years ago. Here's the deal: Idgaf about what Cal did 10 years ago. He was great back then, OK. Cool. But I want to see his results NOW. I'm tired of hearing about how awesome he is for stuff back then.

I invite any Cal supporter to provide RECENT stats to prove that Cal is doing a good job at Kentucky. I'd bet there isn't much to say.

Edwards has had a lot of struggles this year. Absolutely killed it this game. If he can give Kentucky even 60% the rest of the year, that changes their ceiling.

Big Z has been through it as well. Blocked some shots, dunked on a guy, threw no look passes, hit shots and was awesome.

Reeves had a bad tourney exit game and kicked around the idea of transferring. Came back and is one of the best scorers in the whole country.

Go down the list. Reed, Rob, Adou all awesome.

What a day. Feels like they needed this. Beat the HELL out of a really good team.

Alabama only made 34 field goals. 28 of them were layups or dunks. I knew I noticed this during the game, but didn't really criticize it much because UK was up 25+ the entire second half. However, Alabama got a TON of easy baskets. Uncontested layups and dunks that were a result of defensive lapses.

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Shoot MORE of them!

Kentucky leads the nation in 3-point percentage at 41.0%.

Use Z in the pick and roll to create open looks. Legit, it can't be defended and if you just take enough open looks, you will produce 40 points a game just with threes.

Keep an eye out for this one, transferred to Boise state to play for Hamdan after being at USC. Was ranked the #1 QB out of high school and has family ties to Kentucky.

Go ahead, give him his flowers and admit you were wrong to doubt Cal about this guy. LETS GOOOO!

I've seen people talking about Kentucky being better than the product on the court the past few years. But how accurate is that sentiment. I think people have a sensationalized view of this program's history.

Kentucky basketball has existed for 121 years and only has 8 Championships and 17 Final Fours. There's been far more disappointing seasons in program history than successful seasons. Recent history even before Cal has been even worse. Four Championships since 1958.

We're currently on an 11 year Championship drought, which is only the 3rd longest drought for the program since 1958. We went 20 years from '58 to '78 and then 18 years from '78 to '96. One Championship in 38 years. Cal's personal 11 year Championship drought isn't even the longest by a coach in program history. The great Adolf Rupp ended his career on a 14 year drought.

People talk about the double digit loss seasons. We lost double digit games in a season in 7 out of 10 seasons before Cal was hired.

We haven't been what people picture UK basketball as for a while. Long before these last few years and long before Cal.

Could be one game out and tied for 2nd. Now we need to win the next 3 and hope UT beats Bama. We could be possibly playing UT for the title depending on a few other games. First things first. No bad game against MSU.

It is good mojo. His fate is in this tournament. This team has immense talent. Let the power of BBN band together to allow the basketball God's to place this team where it belongs as a National Champion.

I plead with all of BBN to embrace this ask.

Support the coach and the team. Draw your conclusions at end of year.

This is the moment of healing for BBN.

UofL is going to throw the bank at Nate Oats .

Just landed in Taiwan. Is there anywhere I can watch a replay of the entire game online? YouTube TV doesn't work here.

BWO, will you be posting a link?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Have lost 7 of the last 8. Including a home loss yesterday to the second worst team in the conference, Georgia Tech.

This feels like the classic Calipari move to protect the kid.

A big part of our problem last night was zero depth. While Edwards hasn’t been productive, he would have at least given guys a breather.