Kentucky head coach John Calipari has dug himself a hole, and it doesn’t appear he’ll be climbing out anytime soon.
After starting the season 1-6, the program’s worst since the 1926-27 season, UK rattled off three straight wins to open conference play at Mississippi State, vs. Vanderbilt and at Florida. Right when you thought the Wildcats were picking up steam, they followed it up with back-to-back losses to Alabama and Auburn, with the former being a 20-point beating at Rupp Arena – the worst home loss of the Calipari era – and the latter being a head-scratching defeat in a game the Tigers shot just 37% from the field and 17% from three.