Sports Illustrated ranked the top-10 national championship teams of this decade and the 2012 Kentucky Wildcats came in at No. 1.
As you may remember, John Calipari’s squad was loaded that year with a mix of veteran leadership and elite freshmen.
Here’s what SI had to say:
While it did not enter the final weekend unblemished the way Kentucky’s 2015 team did, this Wildcats squad was closer to undefeated than you might remember, with its only losses coming on a December buzzer beater at Indiana (No. 9 in that season’s final KenPom rankings) and in an uncharacteristic collapse in the final minutes of the SEC title game against Vanderbilt (No.