On Wednesday night, Kentucky lost to South Carolina. You don’t need me to tell you that.
You also don’t need me to tell you that the loss continued an annoying (if not outright “concerning”) trend of Kentucky playing down to competition, and losing to teams they have no business losing to. You can blame Wednesday night’s loss at least in part on the refs (they were abysmal) but the bottom line is that Kentucky had a 14-point lead in the middle of the second half against a clearly inferior team. And rather than building upon that lead or at least maintaining it, they let it disappear, in a loss that frankly should have never happened.