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Kentucky Basketball: 10 predictions for the Wildcats 2017-18 season

By Taylor Sturm

LEXINGTON, KY - JANUARY 28: John Calipari the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats gives insturctions to his team against the Kansas Jayhawks during the game against at Rupp Arena on January 28, 2017 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
LEXINGTON, KY - JANUARY 28: John Calipari the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats gives insturctions to his team against the Kansas Jayhawks during the game against at Rupp Arena on January 28, 2017 in Lexington, Kentucky. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) /
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MARCH 17: Head coach John Calipari of the Kentucky Wildcats reacts during the game against the Northern Kentucky Norse during the first round of the 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 17, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – MARCH 17: Head coach John Calipari of the Kentucky Wildcats reacts during the game against the Northern Kentucky Norse during the first round of the 2017 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on March 17, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images) /

Wildcats win SEC regular season title anyway

How many times do I have to mention that the SEC is one of the best top to bottom conferences in college basketball before people (besides Blake Lovell of SoutheastHoops.com) actually believe me?

This has been building for a while, and we finally saw it culminate with four SEC teams making it to the Sweet 16 of the 2017 NCAA Tournament and three to the Elite Eight.

However, this increase in competitiveness is going to work in Kentucky’s favor. Clearly the most potentially talented roster in the SEC, the Wildcats are going to “slip up” far less than their competitors.

Where Kentucky might fall to a Texas A&M or Alabama in a close loss that helps make them better down the stretch, I doubt this team loses to upstarts like Missouri.

Calipari’s stability as a coach gives this team something that few other SEC teams have, and the ones that do have that stability are not all-around talented enough to compete.

I have a feeling that the winner of the SEC will be the team that can avoid losses against the likes of Tennessee, Missouri, Ole Miss, Auburn, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and the rest of the “potential” NCAA Tournament teams and not the team that fails to lose to the likely top 25 teams of Texas A&M, Alabama, Florida, and Kentucky.

In 2017-18, the team with the best shot at doing just that is clearly the Wildcats.

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