ESPN’s college basketball crew is having some preseason fun this week by picking out movies that represent each of the teams in their Way-Too-Early Top 25 rankings. While Duke steals what would usually be Kentucky’s pick with “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back,” Kentucky comes in at #3 with…”The Aviator”?
Here’s Eamonn Brennan’s reasoning for choosing the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic for the 2015-2016 Cats:
“So, sure, John Calipari presumably doesn’t share the devastating obsessive-compulsive disorder that director Martin Scorsese and titular star Leonardo DiCaprio so vividly depicted in the 2004 film.