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3 questions for Kentucky basketball as the schedule gets tougher

UK coach John Calipari's post-Monmouth news conference. Jon Hale, Louisville Courier Journal

LEXINGTON, Ky. – If you have found yourself struggling to pay attention to the Kentucky basketball season since the season-opening loss to Duke, it would be easy to understand why.

The schedule was set up in such a way that a quick response to the embarrassment of that performance was not on hand with seven consecutive home games against teams ranked outside KenPom.com’s top 100 closing out the November slate.

Kentucky won all six but recorded blowouts in just two.