Blackie and I were out watching the Tarheels take on Virginia tonight at Manny's when I looked over at one of the large tvs to catch the score on the Kentucky vs Vandy game. I thought for a moment that my eye-sight was going or perhaps the "Budweisitis" was kicking in when I saw the score-which looked like Vandy 31 to Kentucky's 10 with just a couple of minutes left in the first half. Impossible, my eyes are playing tricks on me, the Wildcats beat Vandy earlier this year-that must be a three instead of a one. I was wrong.
(Photo courtesy of the Louisville Courier-Journal)
Kentucky did turn around in the second half, but it was too little too late. The Wildcats lost by 40 points, not their worst loss in history, (that record is held by Rick Pitino's Wildcats when they lost to Kansas on December 9, 1989 by the score of 150-95) just the second worst loss in the 80 years of Kentucky basketball. For all of those folks out there whispering about how Tubby would have never lost that bad; just a reminder, Tubby's squad at Minnesota was losing by 24 to Illinois. BCG still has control of the team and the players seem to be picking up on his system since the Christmas break, but it would be hard for the Wildcats to get a bid for the NCAA Tournament with a loss like tonight and a Gardner-Webb loss on the resume.
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