Whether the Kentucky men's basketball team (0-0) is ready or not, it will soon find out quite a bit about how good it actually is, and what all it needs to work on.
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Kentucky vs. Albany Friday, November 12 – 7:00 p.m. ET Lexington, Ky. Game Notes: UK | UF |
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The No. 2/1 Wildcats open their 2015-16 season Friday at home against Albany (0-0) at 7 p.m. Then, one day later, Kentucky will host NJIT (0-0) at 8 p.m. Three days after that, UK will face No. 5/4 Duke in Chicago as part of the Champions Classic.
“We're gonna figure out – there's gonna be a lot of (questions) that we'll have answered,” head coach John Calipari said Thursday. “Mainly, because you're playing – the first team has most of their team back, an NCAA Tournament team. NJIT has their whole team back and their three-year players that beat Michigan on the road. Obviously, Duke is Duke.”
Playing games on back-to-back days is a rarity in college basketball outside of tournament play, but as Coach Cal explained Thursday, with such a young team it gives UK a little more time to prepare for Tuesday's showdown against the defending national champion Blue Devils at the United Center.
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.