What else can Calipari do? Or Should I ask, what can he not do?
After breaking records and setting others, What will Calipari’s next trick be? After losing 7 players from the near-perfect season last year, which Kentucky set an NCAA record by winning their first 38 games, could we possibly be looking at another deep run in March this season?
It’s crazy to think, but after reloading with another top recruiting class, Cal still has six former five-star prospects and a potential No. 1 overall pick on the roster. With no obvious dominate team heading into the 2015-2016 season, Kentucky looks like one of the best teams in the nation… yet again.
Calipari says, “Last year’s team was an anomaly.”
“That should be thrown out. Don’t ever look at it, don’t compare. If you tell me about that team, stop, just don’t tell me, because that may never happen again.”
Even Tyler Ulis hopes it doesn’t happen again.
As much fun as that ride was, he was inconsolable after UK came up 2 wins short of college basketball’s first 40-0 season, and more notably to him, just shy of claiming the program’s ninth national championship. In the losing locker room back in April, Ulis said that single smudge ruined the whole picture for him.
Time is said to heal all wounds, so all these months later, has he gained some perspective?
“Still feel that same way, I’ve thought back a little bit like, ‘We still went 38-1,’ but I still feel like it doesn’t matter. Our goal was to win the national championship, not go 40-0. We wanted to do that, of course, but at the end of the day we wanted to win a national championship.
“It eats at me so much. I hate it. I still think about it almost every day, like, I can’t believe we lost.” Ulis reveals.
More to this article over at The Courier-Journal
