Rolling into last night’s game at an impressive 19-0, the University of Kentucky’s Men’s Basketball program had finally reached the lofty title of #1.  The only undefeated team remaining in Division I basketball.  The best team in the country.  And after possessing that title for just under 2 days, they found themselves in the hostile, determined company of the South Carolina Gamecocks.  Once you’re number one, there’s nowhere to go but down.  Nowhere to run.  Nowhere you can go and not be a target.

And targeted they were.

Only minutes into the game, I knew Kentucky was headed for trouble.  Bad passes, missed layups and general chaos marked the team I had just watched dismantle Arkansas just three short days before.  Where there was once a supremely confident, well-oiled machine of a basketball team, there now stood a group of guys that looked as if they weren’t quite sure what needed to be done and exactly who was supposed to do it.

They were in a funk.   Read More→