The Kentucky Wildcats are being discussed as a Final Four team, which is a big surprise after the way this team showed up in Nashville.
Defensively, the Wildcats will have to do something different to make a run in the NCAA Tournament because against Texas A&M, the Aggies were driving to the rim, and Kentucky couldn't stop it in the loss.
Coach Calipari has a plan of what he might do in the NCAA Tournament to fix the defensive issues. Here is Coach Calipari's plan, "We may have a couple tweaks. I have some things I think I'm going to have to try to do so I've got a couple tweaks in mind if a team has guards that just break us down. What else can we do? How about if I put both seven-footers in? It may take away a little offense but now you got two seven-footers a little harder to score at the rim. So, there's some different things we can do."
This might have worked against Texas A&M in the SEC Tournament the issue was the Aggies were making their threes so they could have kicked on for open threes in this situation.
This plan would work great for a team that doesn't shoot it all that well and likes to drive it a lot. More than likely, this won't be the plan against Oakland, but after that matchup, in most games, you could use the multiple seven-footers strategy, and it would work. Coach Calipari needed to switch something up defensively, and hopefully, this change could help the Wildcats make a run.
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