CBS Sports’ Gregg Doyel writes that Kentucky has proved the one and done argument is over after the Wildcats win over the Louisville Cardinals last night in the Sweet 16.
Kentucky’s 74-69 victory against the fourth-seeded Cardinals on Friday night means it worked. The argument is over. Can the one-and-done way succeed? Can it succeed against a veteran team with a Hall of Fame coach and NBA talent of its own? It just did. Kentucky doesn’t have to win the 2014 national title to validate Calipari’s madness, because that’s what this game against this opponent in this Midwest Regional semifinal just did.
Before last week Kentucky might not have been a disaster — but it had been a disappointment, losing nine games in the regular season and a 10th in the SEC tournament, leading to an eighth seed in the NCAA Tournament. Has there ever been a team with this many future first-round draft picks seeded as low as the Wildcats were seeded this year? Hell, has there ever been a team with this many future first-round draft picks … period?
We’ll see, but right now we know the answer, and the answer is this: It doesn’t matter. The nine losses, the 10th loss — are pointless now, because that isn’t how this Kentucky season, this Calipari experiment, will be remembered.
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