LEXINGTON, Ky. — There is an awful lot to like about the 2022-23 Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team.
Coming off back-to-back seasons that yielded the worst year (9-16 in 2020-21) in the modern history of the UK basketball program and the worst NCAA Tournament loss (to No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s in 2021-22), by seeding, in school history, John Calipari has the Big Blue empire poised to strike back.
Through four summer exhibition games, a public intrasquad scrimmage, two exhibitions vs. NCAA Division II teams and Monday night’s season-opening 95-63 blowout of overmatched Howard by a UK team with only eight scholarship players available, the Cats’ roster appears to have a lot of answers for the questions a team has to surmount to produce in March.
