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Neither team should have any shot at an NCAA at large bid. (Kentucky has a road record of 4-6.) However, if you actually believe that Arkansas' home record is attributable to bad referees...

Young teams almost always struggle on the road. Pitino managed to post a 14-14 record in his first year at Kentucky with a relatively unathletic team that relied mostly on full court pressure defense to win. (Kentucky's best returning players headed for greener pastures, along with their disgraced, drunken coach Eddie Sutton. That same Kentucky team gave up 150 points to Kansas on the road and 13 of Kentucky's 14 wins that season were on its home court. Full court presses always work better with the crowd behind you.

Young players do not travel well - it's nothing new.

That was my favorite all-time UK basketball team. Yeah I remember watching Kansas beat them 150-95, and in that same season they beat LSU (a top 5 team with Shaq, Stanley Roberts and Chris Jackson) 100-95 and played North Carolina to a 121-110 game, hiting 17 or 18 threes if Im not mistaken...they were only picked to win 6 games that season and Pitino willed them to 14. In my honest opinion, that is the best coaching job I have ever witnessed. That team truly lived and died by the three and boy they didnt care to chuck 'em lol... Pitinos Bombinos. The most fun team to ever step onto a basketball court, because you had no idea what you were gonna see.