Source: chicago.cbslocal.com - Sunday, April 05, 2015
By Brian Hanley (CBS) — In the case of this Kentucky team being the NCAA’s greatest, the defense never rested. Wisconsin’s defense, at crunch time, that is. Kentucky coach John Calipari can testify to that after watching his team’s would-be perfect season end with a 71-64 NCAA Tournament semifinal loss to Bo Ryan’s Badgers. Kentucky was 38-and-done. Calipari’s crew made just one basket in the final 6:32 of their would-be championship tune-up for the Wildcats expected coronation come Monday night against Duke. “I look up, ‘we’re up four,'” Calipari said of his team’s 60-56 late lead. “I’m like, ‘We’re going to win this thing.’ Then, you know, a play here, a play there, all of a sudden we don’t post it. They crowd us, we don’t post it again, we take a late shot. We’re not a team that takes shot-clock violations. We got three.” Those three shot-clock violations totaled 105 seconds of shock for the Kentucky fans who were the very vocal majority among the 72,238 that packed Lucal Oil Stadium Saturday. Calipari couldn’t comprehend how his team lost as he sorted statistics for media members after the Badgers knocked Kentucky and its nine McDonald’s All-Americans out of the greatest group college conversation. “You think about this,” Calipari said. “We had six turnovers for the game. We shot 90 percent from the free-throw line, 60 percent from the three, 48 percent from the field and we lost? What does that mean they did?” Here’s what th
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By Brian Hanley (CBS) — In the case of this Kentucky team being the NCAA’s greatest, the defense never rested. Wisconsin’s defense, at crunch time, that is. Kentucky coach John Calipari can testify to that after watching his team’s would-be perfect season end with a 71-64 NCAA Tournament semifinal loss to Bo Ryan’s Badgers. Kentucky was 38-and-done. Calipari’s crew made just one basket in the final 6:32 of their would-be championship tune-up for the Wildcats expected coronation come Monday night against Duke. “I look up, ‘we’re up four,'” Calipari said of his team’s 60-56 late lead. “I’m like, ‘We’re going to win this thing.’ Then, you know, a play here, a play there, all of a sudden we don’t post it. They crowd us, we don’t post it again, we take a late shot. We’re not a team that takes shot-clock violations. We got three.” Those three shot-clock violations totaled 105 seconds of shock for the Kentucky fans who were the very vocal majority among the 72,238 that packed Lucal Oil Stadium Saturday. Calipari couldn’t comprehend how his team lost as he sorted statistics for media members after the Badgers knocked Kentucky and its nine McDonald’s All-Americans out of the greatest group college conversation. “You think about this,” Calipari said. “We had six turnovers for the game. We shot 90 percent from the free-throw line, 60 percent from the three, 48 percent from the field and we lost? What does that mean they did?” Here’s what th
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