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Whenever casual college basketball fans bring up the discussion of "teams who changed the sport" the same few always come to mind. UNLV in the late '80s and early '90s might be another. The Fab Five was, for sure.
What most college basketball fans have never taken the time to consider is that there was another team, one that played five years ago, that was as impactful to the current landscape of college basketball as any. A team that took commonly held beliefs and conventional wisdom, flipped them completely on their head and reshaped the entire sport.
That was John Calipari's first team at the University of Kentucky, the 2009-10 Wildcats. Patrick Patterson [/URL]and others might not be seen as college basketball trailblazers, but well they kind of are.
Oral History of the 2009-2010 Cats
Whenever casual college basketball fans bring up the discussion of "teams who changed the sport" the same few always come to mind. UNLV in the late '80s and early '90s might be another. The Fab Five was, for sure.
What most college basketball fans have never taken the time to consider is that there was another team, one that played five years ago, that was as impactful to the current landscape of college basketball as any. A team that took commonly held beliefs and conventional wisdom, flipped them completely on their head and reshaped the entire sport.
That was John Calipari's first team at the University of Kentucky, the 2009-10 Wildcats. Patrick Patterson [/URL]and others might not be seen as college basketball trailblazers, but well they kind of are.
Oral History of the 2009-2010 Cats
