This Kentucky basketball season may get worse before it gets better, according to the projections.

This Kentucky basketball season may get worse before it gets better, according to the projections.

Over the last three weeks, the Kentucky basketball season has taken an unexpected turn. The team is now in the midst of a three-game home losing skid and has lost four of its last six games overall.

Furthermore, things could grow worse before they get better. With eight games left in the regular season, the Wildcats are 16-7 overall and 6-4 in the SEC going into this week. It is hardly surprising if the struggle persists.

The Cats are predicted by two of the top college basketball prediction websites, KenPom.com and BartTorvik.com, to finish 4-4 in those remaining games.

If that occurs, Kentucky would enter the SEC Tournament the following month with a 20-11 overall record and a 10-8 league record. This would put the Wildcats far closer to the NCAA Tournament bubble than the 1 seed that appeared so likely just three weeks ago.

According to the predictions on both of those websites, Kentucky will overcome Ole Miss on Tuesday night, triumph at LSU the following week, and then defeat Vanderbilt and Arkansas to round up the home schedule. However, according to both sources, the Cats will lose on Saturday at Auburn, lose in to Alabama the following weekend, and then lose on the road at Mississippi State and Tennessee.

This Kentucky basketball season may get worse before it gets better, according to the projections.

Everything ought to proceed as planned. During the regular season, Kentucky will have suffered more losses than at any other point in the John Calipari tenure. except for 2020–21, when the team had a 9–16 record due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the 2017–18 season, a 10–8 SEC record would be tied for the second-worst record in Calipari’s 15 years as head coach.

It goes without saying that the SEC is stronger in basketball than it has ever been. It’s important to remember that UK’s NIT squad finished 12-6 in the league in 2013; yet, Kentucky participates in this conference. A 20-11 result would represent a significant decline from the hopes of only a few weeks prior.

The only realistic chance Kentucky has of averting this fate is if its defense improves, and that possibility is dwindling. Despite putting more of an emphasis on that side of the ball over the previous few weeks, the data show that the Wildcats are just getting worse.

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