Thread: Sports Illustrated's Magic 8 Ball Says 'Chances are Good' for UK

Luke Winn shakes the magic eight ball (magic eight, kinda has a ring to it, no?) for Sports Illustrated, in an article that identifies 8 teams, one of those 8 is guaranteed to be the National Champion. Here is what Luke (and 'magic eight') had to say about the Cats...

How expectations evolve for John Calipari's Wildcats: The 2010 team was a No. 1 seed overflowing with first-rounders, but as the most extreme experiment of the one-and-done era, it was regarded with some skepticism entering the NCAA tournament. (And rightfully so.) The 2011 team had less talent and its trip to the Final Four -- as a No. 4 seed -- was viewed as a nice surprise. The 2012 team is loaded, and anything less than a national championship for Lob U will be a letdown. The Wildcats are this list's lone no-brainer: they're No. 1 in the polls, Kenpom, LRMC, Sagarin and BPI -- leading pretty much everything other than the RPI, which is worthless. A normal team that's this young would have slipped up at least two-three times by now, but the lone blemish on Kentucky's record is a Christian Watford buzzer-beater in Bloomington. The Wildcats are 26-1, have the country's most dominant interior defense, and are still getting better.

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go big blue. i think this is the year also

These Cats see gold and Crystal in their future.











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