Pass the word: The Cats are back.
No more lost leads, scoring droughts or turnover tsunamis. No more disappearing acts. No more checking and re-checking of the recruiting rankings to figure out where it all went wrong. None of that 9-16 nonsense. COVID is still around, but last season is officially in the rearview.
You could say you didn’t see it coming, Kentucky’s 40 minutes of fabulous on Saturday night at Allen Fieldhouse — 12th-ranked Kentucky 80, fifth-ranked Kansas 62 — but the truth is there were bread crumbs along the way.