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uk78_rivals88018

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NIT loss does not equal a NCAA loss. The NIT loss was bad but on Robert Morris home court. The Gardner Webb home court loss was horrible, but it didn't hold implications for the SEC or anything else.
SP is the worst and the gift of a path to the final four was squandered. Baylor out, clearly neither SP or Murray should have been a challenge.
 
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LadyCaytIL

LadyCaytIL

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Uhhh it’s Evansville from 2 years ago and it’s not even close. They were the worst team
To ever beat UK and it was on our home court
 
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JonathanW_rivals

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Wildcat-in-STL said:
Uhhh it’s Evansville from 2 years ago and it’s not even close. They were the worst team
To ever beat UK and it was on our home court
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No.
I agree with uk78, you have to also consider the context. The Evansville game meant nothing. Maybe they would have had a much better season if McCarty had not f***ed up, who knows. But the setting in which we lost to SP, it can’t get worse than that.
Think of it this way. Five years later, no one other than a UK fan or Evansville fan will remember that game, maybe even just 1 year later. BUT the SP game will be remembered for years and years to come!
 
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fisherscatfan_rivals101526

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STL_Cat said:
St. Peter’s is our most embarrassing tournament loss ever.

Evansville is our most embarrassing regular season loss ever.

Last year was our most embarrassing season ever.

3 consecutive years, racking up our biggest embarrassments. Yippee, lol
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But that combined with Cal’s numbers from 2016 on is not a trend. Evidently Cal can ride 2010-2015 for as long as he wants as long as he keep saying nonsensical things.
 
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Catsfan29

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Saint Peters and it's not even close.

People keep mentioning Evansville just to have something to complain about and while that loss sucked in the moment it had no bearing on how the team finished. Ranked 6th the last game prior to Covid.

GW and RM were bad losses but our teams sucked those years.

This year we clowned multiple schools, arguably the best team in the nation when playing their best and while we fell apart towards the end of the year I was expecting UK to use week one of the tourney to get their mojo back and what better way to do than against a "cupcake" followed by a talented, but manageable mid-major school.

Unfortunately, we got our asses handed to. We played the worst defense all year, combine that with everyone else, sans Oscar, and you have not only the worst loss in recent memory but likely in UK history.

Yes there are losses that hurt more but hurt and worst aren't necessarily synonymous.

/rant over
 
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willyclyde

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Peters is the worst loss in the history of our storied program. And all he had to do was take sahvir out or switch up defenses. What an idiot.
 
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Montana81

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The evansville game absolutely mattered. It was a big reason that despite finishing the season ranked 6th, winning the SEC by a full 3 games and only having 6 total losses we were looking at a 4 seed instead of a 2 like this season.

This idea that some of our fans have adopted that early season games don’t matter is more Calipari snake oil hes sold you. He needs you to believe that because he hasn’t been able to consistently put together teams that are capable of beating good teams early in the season. Tournament seed matters, therefore every game matters. The Notre Dame loss probably kept us from a 1 seed.
 
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UKWildcats1987

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St. Peter's.

Some old timers will have to tell us about mtsu and uab in 81 and 82. This is still worse than those though.
 
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StubbornPenny

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Robert Morris - who cares it was the NIT never even bothered me once, that season just needed to die

Webb - BCG nuff said

evansville - bad but the team did recover decently. Doesn’t really burn at me.

St Peter’s - worst loss in program history and we’ll all hear about it for the next 15-20 years. Easily the worst.
 
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Catsfan29

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Montana81 said:
The evansville game absolutely mattered. It was a big reason that despite finishing the season ranked 6th, winning the SEC by a full 3 games and only having 6 total losses we were looking at a 4 seed instead of a 2 like this season.

This idea that some of our fans have adopted that early season games don’t matter is more Calipari snake oil hes sold you. He needs you to believe that because he hasn’t been able to consistently put together teams that are capable of beating good teams early in the season. Tournament seed matters, therefore every game matters. The Notre Dame loss probably kept us from a 1 seed.
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This isn't college football. The 2019-2020 team was projected a low 2 or high 3 seed.

The ND game had zero impact on our seeding this year. It's the February collapse and SEC tourney woes that did.
 
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Biggest collapse in Kentucky Basketball history belongs to Craparli. Total collapse and embarrassing loss to St Peters.
 
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JonathanW_rivals

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Montana81 said:
The evansville game absolutely mattered. It was a big reason that despite finishing the season ranked 6th, winning the SEC by a full 3 games and only having 6 total losses we were looking at a 4 seed instead of a 2 like this season.

This idea that some of our fans have adopted that early season games don’t matter is more Calipari snake oil hes sold you. He needs you to believe that because he hasn’t been able to consistently put together teams that are capable of beating good teams early in the season. Tournament seed matters, therefore every game matters. The Notre Dame loss probably kept us from a 1 seed.
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We were not looking at a 4 seed. We were thinking we were a 2, wondering if we could get a 1 by winning the SEC-T.

Not to mention a lower seed for the tourney is NOT as bad as a historic loss in it. Being a 4 seed may reduce your chances, but losing the 2-15 game guarantees you are done.
 
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P. Fanning

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Gardner Webb was embarrassing, but at least UK rebounded from that and went something like 12-4 in the SEC and made the tournament. The next season they lost to VMI on their way to an NIT season so I'd put that up there.

Robert Morris really wasn't all that bad because making the NIT in itself was an embarrassment. Robert Morris got to play that game at home and it meant something to them, it didn't UK. I consider the NIT to be a meaningless exhibition, though I remember some UK fans in college being depressed to the point of tears when they barely beat Athletes in Action and lost to Team Nike.

St. Peters was the worst because it meant UK fans could no longer make fun of Duke's losses to Lehigh/Mercer. If anything it says how impressive Kentucky's program is that they hadn't fell victim to one of those big first round upsets until Thursday.
 
LadyCaytIL

LadyCaytIL

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JonathanW said:
No.
I agree with uk78, you have to also consider the context. The Evansville game meant nothing. Maybe they would have had a much better season if McCarty had not f***ed up, who knows. But the setting in which we lost to SP, it can’t get worse than that.
Think of it this way. Five years later, no one other than a UK fan or Evansville fan will remember that game, maybe even just 1 year later. BUT the SP game will be remembered for years and years to come!
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I’m sorry but any team that makes the ncaaT is a good enough team… we were not a super team this year and were 3-6 against top 25 teams. The embarrassment should just be if you actually ignored facts and over rated the team
 
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starchief

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You whippersnappers obviously don't remember the debacle of losing to Georgetown in the F4 in 1984. I still haven't recovered from that.
 
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P. Fanning

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starchief5 said:
You whippersnappers obviously don't remember the debacle of losing to Georgetown in the F4 in 1984. I still haven't recovered from that.
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As bad as that loss was, at least Georgetown was nationally ranked and went on to win the championship that year. No shame in that, but a lot of sadness as Sam Bowie was always one of my favorites. Would have been great to see him win a title after all those injuries at UK.
 
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JonathanW_rivals

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Wildcat-in-STL said:
I’m sorry but any team that makes the ncaaT is a good enough team… we were not a super team this year and were 3-6 against top 25 teams. The embarrassment should just be if you actually ignored facts and over rated the team
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We were not a super team, there weren't any this year. But we EARNED a 2 seed, and were considered the one of the top 4 favorites to win it all. And facts that you ignored is that 3 of those losses came when we played with 2 starters injured.
 
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STL_Cat

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starchief5 said:
You whippersnappers obviously don't remember the debacle of losing to Georgetown in the F4 in 1984. I still haven't recovered from that.
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I know that was a rough one (I don’t remember it, I was 3) but certainly you can’t say that was worse than losing in the 1st round to a 15 seed.
 
LadyCaytIL

LadyCaytIL

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JonathanW said:
We were not a super team, there weren't any this year. But we EARNED a 2 seed, and were considered the one of the top 4 favorites to win it all. And facts that you ignored is that 3 of those losses came when we played with 2 starters injured.
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Do you really think a team 3-6 against top 25 earned a 2 seed? Obviously not how we lost to Sucking a st’s peters
 
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