Forgive me for the very cliché opening sentence, but what a difference a year can make.
A season ago Kentucky opened up in the Champions Classic, and well, you know how things went. The loss to Duke on opening night wasn’t just a loss, but so much more. It made Kentucky fans (understandably) question everything. The present. The future. Recruiting. Whether a season was lost before it even began.
Everything.
Fast-forward to Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden and things were so, so different for any Kentucky fan waking up today. A year after the debacle against Duke, Kentucky toppled the No.