Matt Norlander of CBS Sports covers and follows men’s college basketball about as well as anyone in the national media. He, like most fans of the sport, was paying close attention to Friday night’s game in Nashville between No. 18 Kentucky and No. 11 Gonzaga. As someone who had the Wildcats ranked highly going into the 2025-26 season, he’s just as shocked as the Big Blue Nation that Mark Pope‘s team is struggling this badly through eight games.
“It’s completely unacceptable, obviously, for every single Kentucky fan,” Norlander said on the KSR postgame show with Ryan Lemond and Billy Rutledge.