Kentucky gets the hard earned victory over Vandy today 83-74 closing out a regular season sweep of the Commadores. Oh, and did I mention with the win today, Kentucky captured its 45th regular season SEC Championship? It couldn't have come against a more fun team to defeat than Vandy. It's not because Vanderbilt has unlikeable players, no, it's because of their arrogant for no reason coach.
During the preseason SEC media days, Kevin Stallings was asked what he thought about this years Kentucky team. Kevin being Kevin took a swipe at Kentucky and Calipari with his answer.
I'm paraphrasing here "They have a nice group of kids. Their mostly freshman so I don't know their names."
You see, at the preseason media days, Kevin Stallings and Vanderbilt were somewhat of a darling because of the ridiculous amount of experience they had returning this season. Their starting lineup consisted of all juniors and seniors, a rarity in the days of "one and done" recruiting. Stallings made no secret about how he felt about the "one and done" rule, and Calipari's ability to capitalize on it better than anyone else in the country. With his above comment, he was making a point to point out that Kentucky had a lot of freshman, and he had mostly upper classman. Well, what did that do for him this season?
It got them a preseason top 10 ranking (which they quickly lost), and their first ever ESPN College Game Day (which Kentucky ruined). Then came today's game, where the Wildcats found themselves in a battle till the end, but a team of FRESHMAN pulled it out over a team of UPPERCLASSMEN. After Anthony Davis' dominating game of 28pts, 11rebs, 6blks, 2stls , and Teague's line of 16pts, 4rebs,6ast today I'm sure the names of Kentucky's FRESHMAN are burned in Stallings' mind. Because after all, it was a band of Kentucky freshman that defeated Vandy not once but twice this season.
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