Here’s something you’ve surely heard John Calipari say and will likely hear him repeat as this season unfolds: Kentucky plays all the perceived best teams in the Southeastern Conference twice.
All of Kentucky’s five home-and-home series in SEC play involve two games against opponents boasting one of the league’s seven best NCAA Evaluation Tool ratings going into this weekend. UK is one of the seven. So the outlier is LSU, which has the fifth-best NET and plays Kentucky only once.
Three of UK’s home-and-home opponents are in the NET’s top 20: No. 5 Tennessee, No.