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[paulcalhoun_rivals397471]

Just looking through Sports Reference Stats. According to their metric last seasons schedule was the toughest UK has played since the earliest listing starting in 1950.

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[UKCowboys]

Just looking through Sports Reference Stats. According to their metric last seasons schedule was the toughest UK has played since the earliest listing starting in 1950.

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Great job by our Coach....

 

[Monday Nitro]

We are blessed to have Pope and he has already made many UK fans proud.

 

[I’m The Village Idiot]

Another reason why last year was a good year despite the low points. People fixate on the 12 losses but don’t usually consider just how insanely difficult the schedule was. Not all “ten loss teams” are created equal — one reason why context matters.

 

[phunterd]

The Ohio State game is really the only legitimate grip about last season. There are a few other games we should have won but that’s the only one I can think of where we were full strength and completely no showed.

Last year’s team was an E8 team with outside shot at F4 if completely healthy. That’s a remarkable accomplishment starting from scratch late in the portal. It’s also a reason why it’s so confusing Pope put together this year’s team which just doesn’t mesh well. He built such a cohesive team last season.

 

[M080470]

By contrast Cal's first season that a lot of fans treat as the redemption of Kentucky basketball (and from a recruiting standpoint I agree a 100% it was) was the biggest collection of crap opponents. 35-3 against a bunch of stiffs. Late game heroics from John Wall against UCONN who went 17-16 for the year to the NIT, same with UNC was a game over 500 and went to the NIT, IU was 10-21, Louisville got in as a 9-seed. Mississippi State, our big nemesis that year with the "call me" game and the last second heroics of the SEC final with Cousins tip-in, went to the NIT! Only Tennessee and Vandy went to the NCAA tournament out of the SEC and one of our 3 losses was a Cal special, an inexplicable loss to a bad South Carolina team.
We went to the NCAA and got to play Cornell in the Sweet 16. We play one team, WVU, with a pulse and they absolutely destroyed us. Last year's team would have done just as well and probably better if they had that schedule.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

By contrast Cal's first season that a lot of fans treat as the redemption of Kentucky basketball (and from a recruiting standpoint I agree a 100% it was) was the biggest collection of crap opponents. 35-3 against a bunch of stiffs. Late game heroics from John Wall against UCONN who went 17-16 for the year to the NIT, same with UNC was a game over 500 and went to the NIT, IU was 10-21, Louisville got in as a 9-seed. Mississippi State, our big nemesis that year with the "call me" game and the last second heroics of the SEC final with Cousins tip-in, went to the NIT! Only Tennessee and Vandy went to the NCAA tournament out of the SEC and one of our 3 losses was a Cal special, an inexplicable loss to a bad South Carolina team.
We went to the NCAA and got to play Cornell in the Sweet 16. We play one team, WVU, with a pulse and they absolutely destroyed us. Last year's team would have done just as well and probably better if they had that schedule.

Cal then went to 4 final fours n 5 seasons and won a title. Won 38 games twice n that stretch.

Let's see what Pope can do.

 

[davtay]

By contrast Cal's first season that a lot of fans treat as the redemption of Kentucky basketball (and from a recruiting standpoint I agree a 100% it was) was the biggest collection of crap opponents. 35-3 against a bunch of stiffs. Late game heroics from John Wall against UCONN who went 17-16 for the year to the NIT, same with UNC was a game over 500 and went to the NIT, IU was 10-21, Louisville got in as a 9-seed. Mississippi State, our big nemesis that year with the "call me" game and the last second heroics of the SEC final with Cousins tip-in, went to the NIT! Only Tennessee and Vandy went to the NCAA tournament out of the SEC and one of our 3 losses was a Cal special, an inexplicable loss to a bad South Carolina team.
We went to the NCAA and got to play Cornell in the Sweet 16. We play one team, WVU, with a pulse and they absolutely destroyed us. Last year's team would have done just as well and probably better if they had that schedule.

Don't forget it took a last second shot from John Wall to beat Miami, OH. At home.

 

[paulcalhoun_rivals397471]

 

[UKCowboys]

Cal then went to 4 final fours n 5 seasons and won a title. Won 38 games twice n that stretch.

Let's see what Pope can do.

Cal can never do that again. His last 5 years prove it. NIL has evened the playing field. Or have you not watched Arkansas play? Wait, I'm sure you did, when we kicked their ***

 

[yoshukai]

Cal then went to 4 final fours n 5 seasons and won a title. Won 38 games twice n that stretch.

Let's see what Pope can do.

Cal couldnt come close to replicating that again either . When WWW decided to move his interest to the nba instead of “influencing “ kids on their college decisions…..things changed for Cal .