According to Chris Case of USA Today Sports, Kentucky basketball isn’t going undefeated or winning the national title.
Case has an interesting (and by interesting, I mean terrible) argument. He believes the Wildcats are actually TOO good.
“But sorry Wildcats faithful, it ain’t going to happen,” Case explains. “And it’s not because John Calipari’s team isn’t good enough to do it. It’s that they might be too good.”
Here is an excerpt:
Since their games, Texas, UNC and Louisville have come back to earth, while only Kansas has stuck around as a legitimate top-five team. Still, those other teams will be highly-seeded come tournament time. So if Kentucky has won games against good, ranked opponents by an average of 16.5 points, why won’t they win the whole thing? Because they’ve yet to face a real challenge from a top team and, no matter how much Calipari tells them that the No. 2 seed they’ll face in the Elite Eight is a tough opponent, a college kid who vividly remembers blowing out Kansas by 32 points is going to have a hard time believing it. That’s the thing about youth: They think they’re invincible.
Before we even get to the NCAAs, let’s look at the difficulty of winning every game in the regular season and conference tournament. Amazingly, no major conference team has done that since that historic ’76 Indiana squad. In the past 35 years only two teams in total have done it: UNLV in 1991 (lost in national semifinal) and Wichita State in 2014 (lost in second round to Kentucky after the Wildcats were grossly under-seeded).
