Kentucky Unranked Once Again March 5

[Jload]

Simple question, should Kentucky’s Basketball team ever be ranked below 25. I say no it shouldn’t. I think it is reasonable to expect our team to be one of the top 25 teams in America. When we are not ,and our current lack of ranking is fair,we should ask what is the problem. I’m not sure many of our fans really are.

[Lighthouse]

^ I agree Knox is talented, but he lacks effort. Watch him off the ball, he is easy to guard because he doesn't hustle to get open, and on defense it's worse. He got a dumb foul in the Florida game where he stood flat-footed and grabbed the player as he went by. Loafing.

[Joneslab]

Knox is tremendously young. I'm willing to cut guys who come in here at 17 a little slack because I can't imagine having to play at this level at that age.

I see him loafing at times but I also see him pulling us out of tricky situations. Without him at South Carolina we get run.

[TrueblueCATfan]

2014......now that season had a great story......just keep telling myself that

[Lighthouse]

Oh, I know it hurt those players. I'm talking about this years team, and especially Diallo and Knox. I think if it did hurt them, they would put more effort into playing with teammates and at least attempt to play defense.

[Joneslab]

Many of these players don't have any draft stock. They're well aware of that. They aren't stupid.

I think what we're seeing is mostly a lack of talent plus a deluge of youth. The other night I actually didn't see much selfishness; I actually saw guys not making plays they could make. When you walk with the ball that much what you're seeing there is big-time indecision--that's borne out of most of these guys' inability to make certain plays in certain situations.

Diallo is the only guy on this team that I've seen some selfishness from. Otherwise I think what we're looking at is a team that's considerably poorer talent-wise than we've seen since 2013.

[TrueblueCATfan]

Oh well...it is what it is.....we don't deserved to be ranked but it still hurts

I am not a happy camper this morning.....I just hate losing

[George]

This is a hurt for us fans, and probably the Coaches, but I wonder if it hurts the players. It does effect them, but is this as important as their draft status? I don't think so.

[Lighthouse]

This is a hurt for us fans, and probably the Coaches, but I wonder if it hurts the players. It does effect them, but is this as important as their draft status? I don't think so.

[Joneslab]

It hurts to see it in print.

https://www.nationofblue.com/kentucky-is-no-longer-ranked-in-ap-top-25/