Here’s the thing about playing for a historically regal men’s college basketball program such as Kentucky:
No matter what you do, the odds are strong that someone who has come before you has done it better.
That applies to the splendid season Tre Mitchell is giving John Calipari’s No. 8 Wildcats (13-3, 3-1 SEC) in his first season in the UK program as a transfer.
What we can say is that Mitchell is having one of the best such seasons ever produced by an incoming transfer into the Wildcats program.
We can also wonder where UK would be if an unexpected coaching change at West Virginia had not precipitated the circumstances that led to Mitchell essentially falling into Kentucky’s lap in the offseason.