Rick Barnes is officially playing nice ahead of tomorrow’s game vs. Kentucky. Yesterday, the head coach of the No. 5 Tennessee Volunteers echoed his comments from earlier this week in saying that Kentucky’s struggles to this point don’t matter because John Calipari will have the Wildcats ready to go tomorrow in Knoxville.
“What I know is the respect I have for John Calipari and his program,” Barnes said of what’s seen from Kentucky. “What he’s meant not only to the University of Kentucky but to college basketball in general. When you think of his teams, all I know is they always get better.