LEXINGTON - No one associated with the Kentucky basketball program will look back on the 2020-21 season fondly.
The Wildcats posted the program's first losing record since 1989. They got off to the worst start in the program's history since 1927. No Kentucky player was named All-SEC by the league coaches for the first time since they started picking All-SEC teams in 1956.
The nightmare season is finished after Kentucky's 74-73 SEC Tournament loss to Mississippi State. Now the focus fully shifts to the future.
A vocal segment of Big Blue Nation has long called for UK coach John Calipari to place a greater emphasis on experience in building his rosters each year.