Kentucky’s heart was fairly questioned during the Wildcats’ embarrassing loss to Gonzaga in Nashville — knowing that, even with this team’s ongoing struggles, they’re not 35 points worse than the Bulldogs. Especially not with a crowd of essentially all UK fans filling Bridgestone Arena trying to will them to victory.
DeMarcus Cousins blamed the heart and Mark Pope confirmed that.
“If you’re watching that game, you feel like, starting with the coach, this product is completely unacceptable. Unacceptable,” Pope said at the time. “I think that, as a former player here, I’m pissed at the coach too.