Maybe not with such wild swings of momentum, but Kentucky Coach John Calipari expected a challenge at Mississippi State on Saturday afternoon.
That’s why he took an usual, if not unprecedented step in preparing his team at dawn.
“We came over at 7:30, and we did a shootaround,” Calipari said. “I never do that. I knew how tough this game was going to be. We may have run out of gas because I did that.”
Calipari cited the reason he broke from custom. “We had two other games at noon,” he said of matchups with Seton Hall and Alabama.