One of UK’s assistants filled in for John Calipari at Monday’s basketball press conference, as is tradition. This time around Calipari handed the duties off to Tony Barbee, who spoke with the media for about 10 minutes before the team’s afternoon practice and then a flight for Baton Rouge later this evening. A source very close to the team’s aircraft tells me the Cats are looking at 6 o’clock departure time; until then, this is the full transcript of Barbee’s comments (via UK Athletics) about the come-from-behind win over Ole Miss and the challenge ahead against the now second-place LSU Tigers:
On the close wins and losses this season preparing the team for tournament play …
“Well, of course we would prefer them all to be 20- or 30-point blowouts.