About a third of the way through the 2018-19 season, ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi does not think much of Kentucky’s basketball team. That’s putting it mildly.
During a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Lunardi put it bluntly.
“If the jersey said something other than ‘Kentucky,’ they wouldn’t be ranked based on their resume,” he said. “If Tennessee State got blasted by Duke, and beaten in overtime by Seton Hall, and beat teams nobody could name a player on, they wouldn’t be ranked.”
Of Kentucky not deserving its No. 19 ranking in The Associated Press poll released Dec.