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Kentucky Over North Carolina – The Better the Rival, the Better They Are
The 2014-2015 version of the Kentucky Wildcats continues to look scary and almost perfect, beating North Carolina 84-70 behind a very strong game from Willie Cauley-Stein, once again proving their depth and versatility, raising their game according to the quality of their rival.
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Kentucky Over Columbia – A Complication No One Expected
The team that gave Kentucky their most difficult 40 minutes of basketball so far this season? The Columbia Lions, almost escaping with a win from the Rupp Arena, eventually losing 56-46 despite a very good first half which exposed some weaknesses in the Wildcats’ system.
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Kentucky Over Texas – First Time it Got a Little Bit Difficult
The number one Kentucky Wildcats carry on with their cruise towards winning the College Basketball championship with the deepest team ever assembled, beating number seven Texas 63-51 in what was their most difficult challenge so far this season.
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Kentucky Over Kansas – Scary Good Way Too Early
It might not be a team with a number one overall pick in it, but Kentucky, with John Calipari doing the recruiting, have probably assembled the deepest and most talented team in the nation by far, with ten players that would start on any other squad in the country, unleashing their size and defense on Kansas, walking away with the 72-40 win.
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Kentucky Wildcats – John Calipari Staying For a Very Long Time
Good College Basketball coaches work through rumors of the NBA trying to get them. John Calipari might know how that’s like better than anyone else, but his new contract that keeps him in Kentucky until 2021, with a salary that makes him better paid than most pro head coaches, was put in place to deny any suggestions of him going anywhere else.
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Teams With the Most NCAA Tournament Championships
With a fourth national championship, UConn join an elite group that includes Duke, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina and UCLA of basketball programs to win the NCAA Tournament at least four times.
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UConn Over Kentucky – Back With a Vengeance
The 2014 College Basketball national champions is a team that was banned from the tournament a year earlier, which has only made UConn hungrier and better when they had a shot at their fourth national title, beating Kentucky 60-54 with another huge night from Shabazz Napier.
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Kentucky vs UConn – NCAA Tournament Final Predictions
We’ve never had a #7 vs #8 final before in the NCAA Tournament, but no one will say UConn and Kentucky don’t deserve it, beating quite a few national title contenders along the way, defying the odds and early predictions by making it to the championship game.
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The Teams in the 2014 NCAA Tournament National Championship Game
For the first time ever in Division I college basketball, the final of the NCAA Tournament will be between a #7, the UConn Huskies and a #8, the Kentucky Wildcats, seeds, in a championship game that only 0.01% of those with brackets predicted would come through.
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Kentucky Over Wisconsin – The Clutch Shots Don’t Stop
The same old script: Another tournament game, another dramatic win for Kentucky, this time 74-73 over Wisconsin in the Final Four thanks to a game winning three-pointer from Aaron Harrison, who isn’t new to the situation.