Is UL actually good?

[blubo]

picked this from that other rivals board—ten sec teams aren’t any good—they’re just ‘ranked ‘ 🙄

dumbest thing i’ve read today but the day is young:

“The SEC IMO is just a bunch of ranked teams. About 3 really legit teams like Auburn and 10 other teams that are just 'ranked' Ohio State is terrible and cleaned Kentuckys clock.”

 

[BlueWorldOrder74]

ACC is garbage behind Duke. UL is descent, but not as good as their record indicates.

Had a friend send me a video of the “great crowd” at the game yesterday. Entire upper was empty. Fans still don’t care. They must know.

 

[St.PatterSoN-54-]

If they played our schedule...their record would be like 12-9 or 11-10, and probably wouldn't make the tournament.

If they had played our schedule, they would have also not beaten Louisville.

 

[Wildcat-in-STL]

The ACC is really really bad outside of Clemson, Duke and UL. We're talking a team of Noah, Chandler, Perry, Almonor and Garrison would finish 4th in that conference.

 

[CapnBlubs]

Annoyingly, I think they're pretty good at this point. Their schedule is a joke but they played us pretty tough and they've dominated their league other than Duke.

 

[Caveman Catfan]

Both. 🙃

I think this is right. UL is a good team. But, the ACC, but for 3-4 teams, is trash.

Their schedule has also given them some of their tougher games at home.

 

[fisherscatfan]

They’ve certainly improved since the Pryor injury when they very easily could have gone backwards.

That said, the ACC is embarrassingly bad. Louisville has beaten ONE ranked team, and that was Indiana (LOL) when they were still living on their unwarranted preseason ranking. And the Cards have ZERO remaining games against ranked teams. So yeah… color me unimpressed.

And UL had IU’s playbook-allegedly

 

[U Go UK]

Little brother is good enough to beat anyone. So I’d St. John’s.

 

[GoAndRunIsGoneAndDone]

Can't stand em but UofL is much improved. They'll probably be favored in every game left on their schedule. They'll likely drop one somewhere but shouldn't. I consider them a dangerous team come tourney time.

 

[RondoBaller21]

Average team. Would probably finish at the bottom in SEC and miss the tourney. They are 0-4 against the SEC.

 

[bbncal02]

They are ok. They play in a kindergarten conference right now.

 

[Bluegrassking]

They are pretty fair but the ACC is also crap.

 

[csrupp]

I know the ACC is hot garbage this year. But, after starting the season 6-5 (with all five losses coming to ranked teams) UL has won 10 in a row.

They are ranked 24 in the Net and KenPom and their schedule is pretty easy the rest of the way. They may end up with a regular season record of 24-7

So, are they actually good or does the ACC suck that bad?

Hard to say. Their best win is Clemson and then WVU and SMU.

They’ve beaten almost no one.

 

[Blue-ish]

Court Report: Louisville wasn't supposed to be this good this fast. Here's how Pat Kelsey flipped the Birds

 

[Mike-D]

The ACC is absolutely horrid this year, as their record against the top 25 is something like 5-43. That said, UofL is improved.

 

[zannmann]

If Butler didn’t shoot out of his mind in that game, they probably would have beaten us.

 

[KYExtemper]

I hope Louisville wins out. Makes our win look better!

 

[Crankdatmustard]

They havent played a ranked team since Dec 2. They play 9-12 GA Tech saturday. They are def better than last year (how could they not be), but every top 20 team they play they lose by average of 18 pts (if you take out Indiana, who was a joke of a top 20 team preseason)

 

[Blue-ish]

They havent played a ranked team since Dec 2. They play 9-12 GA Tech saturday. They are def better than last year (how could they not be), but every top 20 team they play they lose by average of 18 pts (if you take out Indiana, who was a joke of a top 20 team preseason)

The last time I looked we are top 20.

UK 93-85.

Duke 76-65.