How good (or bad) will this Kentucky basketball team be? We asked the national experts
2023-24 College Basketball Preview The Lexington Herald-Leader’s 2023-24 College Basketball Preview was published in the print edition on Sunday, Nov. 5. Click below to view all the stories that have been published on Kentucky.com. EXPAND ALL Is there a more intriguing team in college basketball going into the 2023-24 season than the Kentucky Wildcats? It’d be a challenge to find one.
UK is never lacking for attention this time of year, and that baked-in outside interest — along with the path John Calipari has chosen to go with his roster, in a potential turning-point season, no less — will ensure that plenty of eyes will be on the Cats over the next few months. While pretty much all of the sport has decided to go old — experienced transfers and fifth-year players are all the rage these days — Calipari is headed in another direction. UK’s coach has loaded up on freshmen — eight of them, in fact — and those young players will almost certainly dictate how this season will go for the Wildcats, who haven’t been to a Final Four since 2015 and last advanced past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament in 2019.
