SEC Champs but the main goal is still ahead

The Southeastern Conference’s regular season trophy is coming back to Lexington after a long, two-year drought. I don’t know how we survived it, honestly. But now Earth is back on its axis and all is right in the world again, Kentucky on top of the league for the 49th time in American history.

After the game, Nick Richards sat down to talk to Mike Pratt on the UK broadcast about winning the league title. He was happy to clinch the ship on Saturday, but made it clear that there is a much bigger goal on the Cats’ minds.

“Our goal is to always win everything, but you know our main goal is to win a national championship,” Richards said. “That’s what we’re going to keep doing, keep getting better, keep improving our game and hopefully win the championship in April.”

We know how John Calipari feels about league titles. He didn’t have much to say about it in his postgame press conference. In fact, he turned Kyle Tucker’s question about the championship into a hilarious rant about the Evansville game.

“You know what’s amazing, when anybody talks about our season, you know what they say? “Evansville, Evansville, Evansville,” Calipari said in response to Tucker’s question about how the team bounced back from the Evansville loss.

“I’m like, are you talking about the game November 12th where EJ did not play in the game and Ashton was sick and so was Nick, and we played with two guys with the flu? That game? That’s the one you’re talking about? Can you say it for me again? Evansville, Evansville, Evansville.”

Cal may not have much to say about trophy No. 49 for the school but it’s clear the players were thrilled in the locker room:

🏆🎊🎉@SEC Champs 😼 pic.twitter.com/0jOVIW3tLp

— Kentucky Men’s Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) February 29, 2020

They will head to Nashville the week after next as the No. 1 seed with more free hats to potentially win.

Go Cats.