A basketball season is a series of tests. Early tests. Middle tests. Late tests. Hard tests. Easy tests. A team won’t pass every test. Bobby Knight’s Indiana was the last to ace them all way back in 1975-76. Still, it must pass more than it fails. To be elite, many more.
Wednesday night at Rupp Arena when Vanderbilt comes to town for the regular season home finale, this Kentucky basketball team faces its next test. An important test.
The test: After playing arguably their best game of the season, can the Wildcats avoid a letdown?