To be honest , I am surprised that we are ranked at all.
Well, let’s try to look at this from a different perspective:
- new coach , while we are very excited about him as Kentucky fun base, he does not have onhis resume a final four or conference title; compare that to the other coaches that are ranked above us in SEC;
- team is all new, while made up quickly 2-3 weeks from portal exclusively and the players have experience it’s still new team that is unproven commodity;
- the players that make up the team are not your typical highly ranked players that everyone was used to see at Kentucky. They might lack certain attributes that NBA scouts are looking for but Coach Pope likes them and we entrusted him with our unconditional full support to rebuild the program.
- lately, Kentucky was not the exact world beaters thanks to Coach Cal and that affects the optics of the pollsters.
Here is the good news: according to the current ranking ,, we are going to play at least 12 ranked teams and have plenty of chances to prove the pollsters wrong.
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