A prominent college basketball metric has the Wildcats ranked in the top ten, citing one massive area of improvement over last year's team.
While the eye test on Mark Pope’s first Kentucky basketball team is still a few weeks away, the preseason analytics are already falling in love with the Wildcats. In his highly respected season preview rankings, analyst Evan Miya has Kentucky debuting as the tenth-overall team in the nation.
Miya’s metrics, which have been bullish on UK's transfer class all summer, give the Wildcats an offensive rating of 11.