WildcatRick
12-18-2007, 03:49 PM
The expectations were grandiose in Bluegrass country.
Kentucky fans were smiling again after finally getting their wish. Tubby Smith was history in Lexington and the new coach would waste little time re-establishing the program as a national power.
Down the road an hour or so in Louisville, the talk was centered on the Cardinals' Final Four hopes with an abundance of high-level talent in the program.
Well, the Billy Gillispie Era has started out with a thud instead of a bang. The Wildcats will try to avoid their first four-game skid in nearly two decades when they face Houston tonight.
Rick Pitino's club is headed in a similar direction. Louisville has been decimated by injuries and yet another suspension to its only productive big man, Derrick Caracter. Right now, San Antonio and the Final Four look about as far-fetched as an NBA title did when Pitino was with the Boston Celtics.
Right now, the combined record of the two teams is a whopping 9-7. A broken-down horse on the side of Interstate 64 might have more fight left in it than these two programs.
http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7579766
Kentucky fans were smiling again after finally getting their wish. Tubby Smith was history in Lexington and the new coach would waste little time re-establishing the program as a national power.
Down the road an hour or so in Louisville, the talk was centered on the Cardinals' Final Four hopes with an abundance of high-level talent in the program.
Well, the Billy Gillispie Era has started out with a thud instead of a bang. The Wildcats will try to avoid their first four-game skid in nearly two decades when they face Houston tonight.
Rick Pitino's club is headed in a similar direction. Louisville has been decimated by injuries and yet another suspension to its only productive big man, Derrick Caracter. Right now, San Antonio and the Final Four look about as far-fetched as an NBA title did when Pitino was with the Boston Celtics.
Right now, the combined record of the two teams is a whopping 9-7. A broken-down horse on the side of Interstate 64 might have more fight left in it than these two programs.
http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7579766
