I am pretty sure that John Calipari has learned his lesson in regard to the SEC Tournament and its importance to the UK fanbase. Probably in his heart though, he still finds the event fairly meaningless and potentially harmful to his team as there is no other circumstance where Kentucky will play three games in three days.
But the reality is that the results this week in Nashville can very much dictate what we should expect next week and hopefully, the weeks after.
Final Four Teams (17 total)
Champions: 1942, 1948, 1949, 1984, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2011, 2015
Runner-Up: 1951, 1996, 2012, 2014
No Tournament Played: 1958, 1966, 1975, 1978
Of the 13 Final Four teams that actually played an SEC Tournament, each and every one of them made the finals of the tournament, with 9 of them winning it.