Damon Amendolara of CBSSports.com has a very good article about this year’s Kentucky basketball team. In the article, Amendolara talks about how Kentucky is good for college basketball.
Here is an excerpt:
Let’s start with why these Wildcats are unique. This isn’t a slew of ego-driven freshman, it’s chock full of returnees. Andrew and Aaron Harrison bypassed being first-round picks to come back for their sophomore year. Willie Cauley-Stein was projected as a lottery selection last spring, but he hated missing the Final Four with an injured ankle so badly he returned to Lex Vegas for another crack. Marcus Lee, Dakari Johnson and Alex Poythress all came back as well, although Poythress tore his ACL in December.
Secondly, they’re toying with history. The ’76 Hoosiers are the last undefeated national champions, but did it in a completely different sports galaxy. No massive media crush. No social media land mines. No 24-hour sports channels. Not only is it unfathomable in a parity-stricken college hoops universe that a team be perfect and cut down the nets. But for the Wildcats to stay undefeated, they’ll have to win eight more games than Indiana did, including a B1G tourney the Hoosiers didn’t have and an extra round in the NCAA’s. This is jaw-dropping for a power conference team that also beat three top-10 squads in the non-con. While the SEC hasn’t been very good, here are the only teams (all mid-majors) over the last 35 years who have even finished the regular season spotless: Wichita State, St. Joseph’s, UNLV, Indiana State. With a win over the Gators, the Cats would already claim an impressive piece of the mountain.
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