No sooner was the headline written -- Get used to Kentucky at No. 1 -- than the words "kiss of death" crossed my mind.
College basketball is too unpredictable, with so many more games determined by younger and younger players, for anything to last very long. Even the vaunted and generally infallible ESPN Power Rankings are apparently a little more fallible than we thought.
Here are two quick reactions from the not-even-ready-for-the-season Bracket Bunker: One, it's the second week of November and we never used to play games this early. So we all need to take a deep breath.