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What Went Wrong: These Things Stunk In Evansville’s Upset Of Kentucky

The new No. 1 team in America did not look worthy of any ranking Tuesday night. Playing for the first time since taking over the top spot in the college basketball polls, your University of Kentucky Wildcats lost — yes, lost — to the Fighting Walter McCarties of Evansville, 67-64. I can’t even believe I just typed that. We are talking about the same Evansville program that won 11 games a year ago and was picked eighth out of ten teams in the Missouri Valley’s preseason poll. The Las Vegas spread on the game was 25.