catmandoo
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posted 04-25-2017 11:56 AM
Kentucky will be good again next season because Kentucky is always good.
Let's make that clear up front.
But with Monday's news that Bam Adebayo is staying in the NBA Draft, we now know for sure that John Calipari will have his most inexperienced roster ever in 2017-18 because eight of the top nine scorers from this season's team that won the SEC regular-season title, SEC tournament title and played in the Elite Eight are officially gone. That's 80.8 points per game out the door. Which means UK is losing more points per game than 324 teams even averaged this past season.
The leading returning scorer?
It's Wenyen Gabriel -- a 6-foot-9 forward who averaged 4.6 points in 17.8 minutes per game. He's the only returning Wildcat who averaged at least seven minutes per game. He scored exactly one point in Kentucky's four NCAA Tournament contests.
Simply put, this is new territory -- even for Calipari.
Yes, he's used to coaching young teams.
But he's never been this young.
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