This wasn’t supposed to happen. Not now. Maybe last season, when John Calipari had a record five first-round NBA draft picks on his roster. Or a year from now, when he’ll welcome in the nation’s top recruiting class (again) to Lexington.But this was supposed to be a year just to tread water, a bridge campaign – not one in which the program is now headed to its first Final Four since 1998. “Nobody thought we could do it,” Kentucky junior Darius Miller said after Sunday’s 76-69 win over North Carolina in the East Regional Final.
