With the 2021-22 season now officially over, all eyes turn to 2022-23. Overnight, several national outlets released their “Way-Too-Early” rankings for the upcoming season and if you ask me, Kentucky’s ranked way-too-high in all of them.
Yesterday, Mike DeCourcy jumped the gun over at The Sporting News, putting Kentucky No. 1 if Oscar Tshiebwe returns (no mention of Shaedon Sharpe). So far, he’s the only national writer to rank the Cats first, but Kentucky is top three in almost all of the other rankings I’ve seen this morning, which seems absurd given the uncertainty around next year’s roster, but that’s how this works.