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Kentucky Wildcats Basketball: Breaking Down Kentucky's Senior Night Comeback

In yet another rendition of “how nervous can you make the Wildcats fans,” the 2016-17 incarnation of the ‘Cats demonstrated once again that no lead is apparently too big to spot teams this season, at least in Rupp Arena. Another way of putting it is to say Kentucky stepped knee-deep into a pile of crap and came out on bended knee, engagement ring in hand, smelling like Georgio Armani dressed them.

If there is one thing about this year’s team that constantly calls to mind the 2013-14 Wildcats, it is the tendency to start games behind. But even those worthies never dug themselves a 19-point grave on senior night (of all nights) for a team that is built to defend such a lead with long-range barrages, then fill it back in and bury their opponent in a shallow grave instead.