Kyle Tucker can be reached at (502) 582-4361.The 2014–15 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented the University of Kentucky in the 2014–15 college basketball season. I don't see why this team can't go all the way." "It's great to see what they did last year, but we're trying to create our own story and hopefully win a championship. "I'm always up for a challenge," Murray said. These Cats hope to avoid a similar fate, but it does beg an interesting question: Why would anyone want to follow an act like that?
Of course, those six guys all bolted for the NBA, and Kentucky nose-dived the next season. His 2012 national champions had six guys play 26-plus minutes per game, and those Cats also won 38 games – just in a more satisfying order. Like the one that did what last season's remarkable team could not. Everybody deserved to play," Calipari said, but "some of my best teams, I've played five guys, six guys. I did what I did last year because I had no choice. Calipari won't force the issue on sharing minutes this time around. That's enough talent to leave homegrown juniors Dominique Hawkins and Derek Willis scratching for whatever's left of the playing time. Sullivan | Calipari, Brown: Apples & Oranges? Junior-college transfer Mychal Mulder (6-4) is a sharpshooter and top-100 freshman Charles Matthews (6-6) is a lockdown defender and high-flying finisher.
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There's Poythress and the springy 6-9 Lee, plus 6-11 Labissiere (the possible top pick) and another late recruiting addition, 7-foot, 260-pound Australian freshman Isaac Humphries. "It's going to be interesting to see what he has for us." "He's up there right now just scheming," said Murray, pointing to Calipari's office overlooking Kentucky's practice gym. This team won't be as deep and likely not as dominant, and a non-conference schedule that includes Duke, UCLA, Arizona State, Ohio State, Louisville and Kansas could deliver a few early speed bumps, but the blend of proven veterans and elite newcomers looks like a recipe with which the Cats' Hall of Fame coach can cook up a contender. The veterans hope their fire and Calipari's annual infusion of fresh talent, which included five-star freshmen Skal Labissiere, Jamal Murray and Isaiah Briscoe, can propel UK to the only thing that will soothe the disappointment: banner No. So close two years ago, so close last year. "It's going to drive me a lot," Poythress said. He's experienced almost everything – a rare NIT appearance for the Cats his freshman year, an NCAA title game as a sophomore, major injury and an historic run his junior season – except cutting down the one net that matters most. In the losing locker room back in April, Ulis said that single smudge ruined the whole picture for him. Sophomore point guard Tyler Ulis hopes it doesn't.Īs much fun as that ride was, he was inconsolable after UK came up two wins short of college basketball's first 40-0 season – and more notably to him, just shy of claiming the program's ninth national championship. If you tell me about that team, stop, just don't tell me, because that may never happen again." "Last year's team was an anomaly," he said. Incredibly, Las Vegas was taking bets on another undefeated run this summer.
And with no obvious juggernauts heading into the 2015-16 season, Kentucky looks like one of the best teams in America yet again. The crazy part: After reloading with another top recruiting class, Calipari still has six former five-star prospects and a potential No. – And for his next trick, Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari will lose seven players to the NBA draft and still attempt the seemingly impossible feat of following a near-perfect season in which his Wildcats set an NCAA record by winning their first 38 games before falling in the Final Four.
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