The 2021-22 Kentucky Wildcats Men’s Basketball team is going to be full of firsts.
They’ll be the first to play after a truncated COVID-19 infected season. The first to play after the program’s first single-digit win season in nearly 100 years. The first to learn and utilize everything that comes with the new name, image, and likeness rules.
Despite the roster being loaded with veterans and upperclassmen, there are going to be a lot of firsts for most of these ‘Cats.
But nothing will be more challenging, and at the same time opportunistic, than navigating through NIL legislation that went into effect earlier this summer.