John Calipari’s 2016-17 Kentucky Wildcats are more fun than Disney World.
The go-go Cats are averaging 94.2 points per game. No Kentucky team — not even Rick Pitino’s dominant, full-court pressing 1995-96 NCAA champions (91.4) — has finished a full season scoring at such a prolific rate since Adolph Rupp’s penultimate UK team averaged 95.4 ppg in 1970-71.
Going into Tuesday night’s road trip to Vanderbilt, only five teams in all of college hoops are averaging more possessions a game than the 79.5 that Kentucky is producing (source: Teamrankings.