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.
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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.
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