ESPN’s Myron Medcalf has listed every team in the Preseason AP Top 25 and the reason they will not make the Final Four in Minneapolis.
Take a look at why Medcalf thinks the Kentucky Wildcats will not make it to the Final Four.
2. Kentucky: Because this talented crew needs someone to duplicate the efforts of the premier point guards who have steered John Calipari’s past Final Four teams, and Immanuel Quickley, Quade Green and Ashton Hagans might not have the juice to play that role for this team. That matters because the only Kentucky squad under Calipari since his debut season in 2009-10 that finished with a higher turnover percentage than last year’s team — which struggled to find a solution at point guard and lost to Kansas State in the Sweet 16 — was the 2013 squad that lost in the NIT.