The Kentucky Wildcats basketball team has yet to take the floor in a regular season game, but expectations are already sky-high for this talented group. In addition to being ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in nearly every preseason poll, many experts are now predicting that they will cut down the nets at the Final Four in April.
Mike Rutherford of SB Nation lists Kentucky winning the national championship as one of his “10 predictions for the 2018-2019 college basketball season.”
“My colleague Ricky O’Donnell isn’t quite as high on the Cats (see his preseason top 25 for further evidence), but to me, Kentucky checks more of the requisite boxes than any other team in the country.