Maybe it is meant as a compliment, or at least could be taken as one: Kentucky basketball is what Alabama football is to the SEC.
Since the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville joined the SEC for the 1991-1992 season, the Wildcats have won nine conference championships and tied for two more. The second-most outright titles go to Florida with four and Arkansas with two.
Not enough? Kentucky has won 15 SEC Tournaments, including the past three. That's why they call it the Kentucky Invitational.
So if they share an air of a blueblood and a semblance of arrogance with the Crimson Tide, it is understandable, although it isn't football so the Wildcat Nation has to be slightly more tolerable.