Opening night of the men's college basketball season with filled with upsets, standout performances and an Ivy League team looking to build on last year's tournament run.
The best thing men's college basketball has going for it is March Madness. The next best thing is the rich amount of parity that the sport provides. On an opening night across the sport that was heavily criticized for featuring 185 games, with 72 of those contests featuring Division I programs facing non-DI opponents, and not a single ranked vs. ranked showdown, college hoops still delivered the dramatics. In East Lansing, Michigan, it's a state of shock for Michigan State fans.
Kentucky has a team that matches John Calipari's preferred style as Wildcats dominate opener Here's the figure that stands out the most from the Wildcats' 86-46 win over New Mexico State: Kentucky scored 25 fast-break points and only committed six turnovers. Calipari has been questioned in his career beforehand with whether or not he could get John Wall and Eric Bledsoe to coexist, or the group of Chris Douglas-Roberts, Derrick Rose and Antonio Anderson in his Memphis days.
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