Again, Kentucky Loses At Home To An Inferior Opponent

Full disclosure: I am a huge Kentucky Wildcat fan. With family from Kentucky, you can't grow up without being a big Kentucky basketball fan. It's just something that you do. Living out here in the Northwest I have never been to a game at Rupp Arena, although I know a ticket is hard to come by. This year I ordered the ESPN FullCourt package which allows me to watch 24 of their 31 games. Tonight was my first opportunity to see the 2008-09 version and, damn it, I wasn't happy.

25 turnovers.

14 3-pointers made by the Keydets.

No extending of the defense when VMI was knocking down jumper-after-jumper.

The result: A 111-103 loss to the Virginia Military Institute.

Tuesday the 'Cats travel to North Carolina to take on the unanimous #1 team in the nation. If they play like they did tonight a 35-point loss is undoubtedly waiting.

Although the Keydets lead the nation in scoring the last two years, giving up a 111-points in ridiculous. During one sequence of the second half, VMI scored 4 points on two layups where there wasn't a Kentucky defender within 15 feet of the player.

They looked confused and disorganized. Maybe even a bit cocky when the game started. Now Billy Gillispie will have to answer questions two seasons in row after a home defeat that just five short years ago would have been unimaginable.