Kentucky WVU -

[pnkranger]

First team to 40 wins? I get the feeling that game is going to be brick city with two poor outside shooting teams pressuring each other all game long. I know they'll get up and down the floor, but will anyone score?

 

[campbest]

UK will crush them.

 

[SilliSooner]

WVU is a better outside shooting team than Kentucky. They better be because unless they get a few turnovers they'll make no shots at the rim.

 

[JBaker]

WVU is just the type of team that could beat Kentucky. They almost certainly won't, but they play a style that is probably most capable of beating Kentucky.

 

[scrybe]

I don't expect WVU to beat Kentucky; the 'Eers might even get run out of the gym. However, I do believe Huggins is a better in-game coach than Cal, so I don't feel entirely comfortable with giving WVU no chance.

 

[WTSooner]

WVU is just the type of team that could beat Kentucky.

Wish they scored it a little better. Maybe a team like Arkansas or NC would have a slightly better chance for that reason?

I think UK will pull away, probably in the 2nd half, and win by 15+.

 

[tooney]

I wouldn't be surprised if Huggins doesn't come up with a new wrinkle on his press or other parts of his defense.

That said...I hope WVU wins, but I don't give them much chance. Kentucky has too many big horses!

 

[StatGeek]

I think it's going to be a close one.

 

[sperry]

Huggins did beat the first Calipari team, which was every bit as good as this one.

I didn't follow WVU as closely back then because they weren't in the conference, so I don't know how good they were that year relative to this.


But this Kentucky team is comparable to Cal's other great teams. They just played in a garbage conference this season that allowed them to go undefeated.

 

[Zimwillett]

Huggins did beat the first Calipari team, which was every bit as good as this one.

I didn't follow WVU as closely back then because they weren't in the conference, so I don't know how good they were that year relative to this.


But this Kentucky team is comparable to Cal's other great teams. They just played in a garbage conference this season that allowed them to go undefeated.

Kentucky had 3 or 4 off nights where they might have (emphasis on might have) been in danger of being upset in a better/deeper conference, but we'll never know. And it's not like Kentucky didn't challenge itself in the nonconference. They obliterated KU, played preseason top ten Texas, Providence, North Carolina, UCLA, and @ Louisville. With the exception of Louisville, none of those teams played UK within 10 points.

Based on that, I think it's a little over-the-top to say that a weak SEC is what "allowed" UK to go undefeated.

 

[chuckb]

Wish they scored it a little better. Maybe a team like Arkansas or NC would have a slightly better chance for that reason?

I think UK will pull away, probably in the 2nd half, and win by 15+.

Arkansas tried to run with Kentucky and Kentucky destroyed them.

West Virginia loses by at least 10. 15 sounds about right to me.

 

[coolm]

Wish they scored it a little better. Maybe a team like Arkansas or NC would have a slightly better chance for that reason?

I think UK will pull away, probably in the 2nd half, and win by 15+.

they destroyed arkansas. it was ugly.

I think WVU hangs for a bit then gets blasted in the second half. I hope not though. I think the 15+ is probably right. Not disrespecting WVU - I just think its gonna be too hard for them to put up pts.

 

[sybarite]

Like Villanova/Georgetown, WV will have to do something spectacular, like shoot 78% from the field.

 

[WaymanFan]

Assuming Kentucky wins, they had better bring their 'A' game against Notre Dame. This is the best Fighting Irish team I've seen since '78. They are explosive.

 

[Sweetest OU Girl]

Assuming Kentucky wins, they had better bring their 'A' game against Notre Dame. This is the best Fighting Irish team I've seen since '78. They are explosive.

All I have to say is:

Thank heavens we didn't have to play Kentucky.​

 

[Max Power]

Assuming Kentucky wins, they had better bring their 'A' game against Notre Dame. This is the best Fighting Irish team I've seen since '78. They are explosive.

Will this do?

 

[Swans]

And, who beat Dook in 1978 in the title game?

 

[Sooner-Bred]

In what world is Kentucky not a good shooting team??

And anyone that thought WVU was a better shooting team than Kentucky is outside their minds.

That was a beat down of EPIC proportions, West Virginia should've kept their mouths shut :facepalm

 

[BlackwellSooner]

Been kind of watching the UK-WV massacre tonight, and cannot believe that the box score shows UK with only 7 blocked shots tonight. Amazing, it seems to me that the number of blocked shots should be double that amount.

 

[MichaelM]

First team to 40 wins?

Right on the money!