As he did earlier in the year, Kentucky Coach John Calipari noted how SEC expansion affected how teams schedule non-conference games.
Two more quality league opponents — Missouri and Texas A&M — mean a greater reluctance to add top-drawer non-conference opponents, he said.
Calipari made the same argument earlier in the year when saying Kentucky needed to drop one of its traditional non-league opponents: Either North Carolina, Louisville or Indiana.
That opponent turned out to be Indiana when it refused to continue the series with UK on neutral courts only.
Calipari welcomed the idea of further SEC expansion.
“If the league expanded two more, I’d be fine with that,” he said.
Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald- Leader has covered Kentucky basketball since the 1981-82 season. That time includes five coaches, five Final Fours, four athletic directors, two interim athletic directors and many memories. Before coming to Lexington, Tipton worked eight years for the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch. He covered Marshall’s basketball team for two seasons before coming to the Herald-Leader.
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When is UK, i.e., Cal, going to announce his ‘non traditional’ schedule?
I bet the home non conference schedule will be jam packed with top level schools don’t you?
BUT have no fear, its going to be worth the price of those recently raised tickets don’t ya bet?