The college basketball gods smiled on me yesterday when Indiana beat Kentucky. The North Carolina Tarheels and the Kentucky Wildcats were headed for a showdown that the college basketball world had already penciled in and maybe Kentucky was caught looking ahead to that game. That was going to be a classic "good vs. evil" matchup and the Kentucky faithful were already looking forward to that game. Coach John Calipari of Kentucky had been very vocal about how he thought Kentucky deserved a higher seed than a #4. North Carolina held up their end of the bracket by beating Florida Gulf Coast and a good Providence team.
I have never been a fan of Calipari's. He is a good coach and has won everywhere he has been but he always operates in the gray area of the rules in recruiting. Massachusetts and Memphis got busted for recruiting violations as soon as he left those schools. Kentucky's freshman class is probably already filling out the paperwork so they can turn pro. That is the state of college basketball today. Kentucky is just at the head of the class as they regularly have up to six of their freshman turn pro after their freshman year. Kentucky has become the face of the "one and done" college player.
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