Exhibition Play Exposing Top-Ranked Hoops Team

The Kentucky men’s basketball team, the winningest program in college hoops history, lost to lowly Gardner-Webb yesterday. The Wildcats were stunned by a mid-major at home in an exhibition game that was part of the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic. The tournament has no bearing on Kentucky’s No. 20-AP Poll ranking, as it is an exhibition game, but the fact that such a small program beat such a huge on so handily has to be a little wake up call for Wildcat fans. Kentucky went down by 14 to start of the game, and never got within seven points of Gardner-Webb. Perhaps the worst part for Kentucky is that it happened at home in front of a lot of fans who are excited about what this Kentucky team is capable of this season.

This exhibition tournament is designed to raise money for cancer research and treatment, so everybody technically wins here. But Kentucky will have to reassess their mindset if they want to live up to expectations and win in the games that count. New Wildcats coach Bill Gillispie will be watched like a field mouse at the Owl National Convention, if there were such a thing.

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