Matt Norlander of CBS Sports says Kentucky is clearly Final Four-caliber team following their win over Kansas.
In the video below, Norlander says Kentucky is a top 5 team:
Here’s an excerpt from Norlander’s article:
Put the Wildcats at the same table as Virginia, Tennessee, Duke, Michigan State, Michigan and whatever other teams you think are worthy. (Kansas? Well, maybe not. Not right now, anyway.)
While the Cats are far from perfect, there are no qualifiers or excuses or asides we should be including when discussing Kentucky at this point. It’s going to lose a few more games, but whatever: this team is cresting toward being one of the five most dangerous in college basketball. Saturday night proved it. Kansas doesn’t need to be vintage in order for UK to acquire more style points or credibility. That’s a Quadrant 1 win and could ultimately help Kentucky secure a No. 1 or No. 2 seed.
The rewarding thing with this team is how ahead of schedule it seems to be. There have been some teams over the past six seasons where UK’s youth has needed time into February, or even March, to find its groove. I see nothing of that sort here. Almost every game Kentucky’s played over the past month has given us tangible reasons to believe the ceiling is getting raised for this team ever higher by the week.
