Good morning, friends, and welcome to a new week — Christmas week, in fact. Presents, food, and maybe even snow await us in the coming days, but it doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of cheer in the Big Blue Nation right now. The gold standard that is Kentucky Basketball seems pretty tarnished, and sadly, the routine holiday polishing probably won’t do the trick.
The news isn’t all bad in the Kentucky Sports world right now. Let’s start with the bad and then move on to the good.
BASKETBALL
A new meaning to Big Blue Nation
Unless you completely checked out on Saturday — which, it feels, an increasing number of Kentucky fans are starting to do — you know that the Cats’ trip to New York did not go well.