John Calipari may have gotten ahead of himself. After Kentucky returned to Rupp Arena and picked up three double-digit wins in a row, Coach Cal found himself thinking through how the Wildcats would win their next close game. With two games in three days against Notre Dame and Baylor coming up, it was logical to think that UK would be in a position of needing to know what to do in a very specific set of circumstances.
“I probably last week started working on situations too soon,” Calipari said. “See, there's not a situation when you're down 15. There is no situation. There's no you're going to go five-point plays three times in a row.”
At the cost of a constant emphasis on effort and energy, the Cats began working on what they would need to do on a possession-by-possession basis in a close game.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.