Earlier this afternoon, Kentucky women’s basketball head coach Matthew Mitchell met with the press to officially kick off his ninth season patrolling the sidelines at Memorial Coliseum.
Mitchell sounded optimistic about this year’s team in his opening statement.
"Just really, really excited about this edition of the Wildcats. Very, very optimistic about what they can become. They have an enormous amount of potential", he said.
For Kentucky to reach that potential, it needs to two of its veterans to return to the court and pick up where they left off last season. Steady point guard Janee Thompson was having a fantastic 2014-15 campaign before a gruesome leg injury sidelined her for the rest of the season.