LEXINGTON - For almost an hour Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari and radio play-by-play man Tom Leach broke down the implications of UK's shocking season-ending loss to No. 15 seed Saint Peter's.
But it was the final seven-minute segment of the Calipari radio show in which athletic director Mitch Barnhart made an appearance that may have been most telling.
"We have built the foundational pieces of Kentucky athletics and specifically Kentucky basketball to layer upon layer give us an opportunity to celebrate championship-level performance," Barnhart said. "We need to return to that. Our fans deserve that.