While we’ve been focused on this football season, basketball is here, and the 10th-ranked Kentucky Wildcats open the season in a huge game against the 9th-ranked Duke Blue Devils at Madison Square Garden in the Champions Classic.
The Cats have played two exhibition games and shown a lot of bright spots through those games, but also have shown some holes, particularly defensively. Miles College was able to shoot the lights out against Kentucky in the last exhibition game, but Kentucky has plenty of experience, depth, and outside shooting of its own.
As for the Blue Devils, they've played one exhibition game, a 106-38 win over Winston-Salem State.