NEW YORK — Sixteen days into the men’s college basketball season, the sport’s most expensive roster is already feeling the heat.
Any cover that Kentucky bought with its late rally to make things respectable in a rivalry loss to Louisville vanished Tuesday night when the Wildcats got run off the floor 83–66 by Michigan State at the Champions Classic. It was a drubbing at the hands of a team that lacks the offseason flash Kentucky’s reported $22 million spending spree created, and one that rightfully has just about everyone in the Bluegrass State on edge.
