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Rick Barnes takes a playful jab at John Calipari about Chris Livingston

Remember when the Kentucky Wildcats were 10-6 and coming off what looked like the final dagger in that home loss to South Carolina?

Boy, how things have changed since then, as Kentucky has won eight of 11 games to get back on the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble, thanks largely to a season sweep of the No. 10 Tennessee Volunteers.

A big part of that has been the ascension of Chris Livingston, a former five-star recruit who was struggling to establish his role within a Kentucky team that, at the time, wasn’t doing much of anything right.