The House of Blue

Lowest Kentucky rank under Calipari prior to being unranked this week: 22nd for four-week stretch in February 2011

This should be an eye opener to these guys. Hopefully the sense of entitlement goes away and they become the blue collar team they need to become.

Indiana - Wins over Bryant, North Dakota St, Sam Houston St, Georgia, Georgetown, Ball St, #14 UNC, Coppin St. UNC is only quality win.

Duke - Wins over Georgia St, #3 UK, Florida Gulf Coast, #13 Minnesota, VCU, #2 Louisville, #4 Ohio St, Delaware

I'm no fan of Duke but how you rank Indiana ahead of Duke at this point boggles the mind.

Its not how they start its how they finish. Hopefully they can learn from the last two games.

Eh. If I played on the team or coached them we'd be we. Fortunately for the University, State, and Fans I don't play or coach for them so it's they. Sometimes I do use "we". It's just semantics.

The real question is, is this gonna put a chip on their shoulders? Are you going to get mad and play with more intensity? That's what I am curious to see.

Man, you said a mouthful of truth there. Duke has proven through play they deserve the #1 spot and Indiana enjoys playing teams at home that Huntington Prep would play tough. I can believe UK fell from the top 25 after their past 2 performances. Now we will pick up the "Indiana like" portion of our schedule till Dec 29th. I hope the Cats can develop a lot during the semester break and come out swinging when the SEC schedule starts.

This isnt a top 25 team right now. The team has played pretty poorly against the good teams and have beaten the teams at home that they should. In my book that doesnt warrant a top 25 ranking even if it has "Kentucky" across their jerseys. I think this team will get better but we all better get ready for a few more bumps in ths proverbial road. I have no doubt will beat up on the teams between now and Dec. 29th but UL with or w/o Dieng may provide that next bump because thats the next true rd game for this team. I f you noticed I didnt use we or they, I just wanted to present my point of view w/o a judgement of semants.

I have no problem not recognizing UK as a top 25 team but a drop from #8 to unranked seems excessive given prior precedent. Just not the way polls usually work. Apparently this is the first time since the polls expanded to 25 that a team has gone from top 10 to unranked which supports my point.

Thinking the same thing, I've seen other top ten teams lose two games and not even fall out of the top ten.

If that happens it's because the teams they lost to were ranked higher than they were. UK lost back to back to unranked teams. Nobody else in the top 25 has 3 losses or a winning % barely above 50%. This is just a case of the people with votes realizing this team should have never been ranked so high in the 1st place and fixing their mistake. They should be using the same thing to fix the IU and Duke robbery.

UK will loose 3 more games folks. Untill we find a PG we are in deep dooo dooo