NCAA Tournament March Madness

#28 Kentucky

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Projected seed: 7

Kentucky’s resume pairs high-end moments with damaging setbacks in a way that explains a mid-range placement, because the Wildcats have beaten quality opponents away from home and collected marquee home wins while also suffering a lopsided neutral defeat to Gonzaga and ugly road losses at Louisville, Alabama and Vanderbilt that raise consistency concerns; road victories at LSU, Tennessee and Arkansas and a neutral-site win over St John's show they can win in hostile settings, and home wins over Texas and Indiana bolster the ledger, but the remaining slate — a home date with Georgia, trips to Auburn and South Carolina, a home game with Vanderbilt, a road test at Texas A&M and a season-finale against Florida — presents clear opportunities to add a defining victory or alternatively to deepen the committee’s reservations.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/4Nicholls St261W77-51
11/7Valparaiso154W107-59
11/11@Louisville15L96-88
11/14E Illinois325W99-53
11/18(N)Michigan St13L83-66
11/21Loyola MD316W88-46
11/26Tennessee Tech322W104-54
12/2North Carolina29L67-64
12/5(N)Gonzaga10L94-59
12/9NC Central340W103-67
12/13Indiana35W72-60
12/20(N)St John's22W78-66
12/23Bellarmine265W99-85
1/3@Alabama16L89-74
1/7Missouri53L73-68
1/10Mississippi St91W92-68
1/14@LSU54W75-74
1/17@Tennessee19W80-78
1/21Texas34W85-80
1/24Mississippi71W72-63
1/27@Vanderbilt11L80-55
1/31@Arkansas18W85-77
2/4Oklahoma57W94-78
2/7Tennessee19W74-71
2/14@Florida5L92-83
2/17Georgia3967%
2/21@Auburn3140%
2/24@South Carolina9873%
2/28Vanderbilt1146%
3/3@Texas A&M3644%
3/7Florida534%