Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com is still skeptical of Kentucky not losing any games this season.
CHICAGO — It was as dominating of a 20-minute stretch as I’ve ever seen, and trust me when I say I’ve seen some one-sided contests (I covered AAU basketball for years). UCLA had yet to score nearly eight minutes into the game, and the top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats were ahead 24-0.
The fat lady may as well have begun to sing, because it was over.
Kentucky’s resume now includes a pair of current top 10 teams in Kansas and Texas, another top 25 club in North Carolina and also a UCLA team that features an NBA lottery pick.
But the ‘Cats aren’t running the table.
With all due to respect to my colleague Dan Dakich and the others that have pegged this team as one that won’t have a single blemish, I’m not buying it.
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It is hard for me to say that Kentucky will go undefeated, even though it will be hard for John Calipari’s team to lose in the regular season if it isn’t at Louisville this Saturday.
The SEC does not have 1 team in the AP Top 25 and only 3 teams are actually receiving votes.
Arkansas’ 22, LSU’s 7, and Florida’s 4 votes are the only SEC teams even in the discussion to be ranked nationally.
Of course, I was at both the Indiana and Vanderbilt losses in 2012 and it just takes one miracle or a bad game to put one in the loss column.
I do know one thing for sure.
The BBN would much rather lose a game in the regular season or in the SEC tournament rather than suffer the heartbreak in the Big Dance.
