If the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee is indeed out to get UK, as basketball coach John Calipari’s annual mantra tells us, it went to greater lengths than normal this year to stick it to Kentucky.
“I realize that the selection committee is very intentional, but how did they get a foot of snow to blanket Lexington?” Calipari tweeted Monday morning. “They are good. LOL!”
After Kentucky was awarded a No. 5 seed and shipped to Boise, Idaho, to open NCAA Tournament play Thursday, Calipari complained after Sunday night’s bracket draw — partly tongue in cheek and partly serious — that the Selection Committee set out to create as difficult a path as possible for his Wildcats.