[Old School Hound]

Like I said on the other thread, we are now the laughingstock of college basketball.

If so, then Reed Sheppard and DJ Wagner were the court jesters. Three points between them. They folded under the tournament spotlight like cheap suits, although they had plenty of company. KY was tentative right from the start and never really seemed comfortable all night. They played like they were afraid to lose instead of going out there from the opening tip with a kick ass attitude.

This team, in addition to being tragically flawed because of their lack of defensive discipline, was simply not a mentally tough bunch. Good kids, it seems, but they just didn't possess a mentally tough constitution to make a deep tournament run. John Calipari did not lose this game. Every rationally thinking human on this website knows that. Emotions are clouding any sense of rational thought at this point. The Cats were tentative all night and didn't make shots like they normally do. Cal did everything possible leading up to the game to loosen the guys up. They simply weren't ready for primetime basketball. 

If someone can lay out the irrefutable proof that this loss was Cal's fault , instead of Reed, Wagner, Dilly, and others, I'd like to hear it. Our boys just failed to bring it. They were tentative from the opening tip.