So we will play the Mountaineers again for the third time in the last five NCAA Tournaments. On paper, it isn't a great matchup for West Virginia (despite what Doug Gottlieb says), because speeding up Kentucky has been a recipe for disaster this season. But, this team is physical and could potentially rough up UK a bit. Still, when Charles Barkley was asked about the matchup, he laughed and then said, "Ernie, that's gonna be a beatdown. West Virginia wants to run and the one thing you don't want to do against Kentucky is run...it's going to be a dunk fest."
Charles knows.
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