“I wouldn’t worry about Kentucky. They’ll figure it out.”
It seems like the beginning of every college basketball season finds multitudes of college hoops fans uttering something similar to the above phrase. Kentucky, a team that hasn’t ranked outside the KenPom top 30 since their “ill-fated” 21-12 season of 2013, is known for slow or chaotic starts as John Calipari crafts, shapes and forms his diamond recruits into something resembling a fine piece of jewelry. They end up being just fine, rolling their way deep into March before the next crop of future NBAers rolls into Lexington the coming summer.