LEXINGTON – The speculation as understandable, if misplaced.
The sight of John Calipari instructing the Kentucky basketball players on the bench to leave the Bud Walton Arena court to go to the locker room before Saturday’s game was finished was certainly unusual. As UK assistants scrambled to pull the five players still in the game toward the locker room as soon as the final buzzer had sounded in the 75-73 loss, CBS broadcasters wondered aloud if Kentucky was avoiding the handshake line in reaction to the much-talked-about postgame fight between Michigan and Wisconsin earlier this month.