John Calipari just announce a devastating News

With tonight’s 97-87 loss to Texas A&M, Kentucky’s record in its last six SEC Tournament games dropped to 1-5.

For the first time in program history, the Cats are 0-1 in the event in consecutive seasons. John Calipari has long preached that the SEC Tournament doesn’t matter and that the NCAA Tournament is what he wants his players to focus on the most; however, another early exit from an event Kentucky used to dominate is hard to swallow.

This year was supposed to be different. The Big Blue Nation flooded Nashville, with 90% of the fans in Bridgestone Arena and thousands more on Broadway. Fans saved and spent hard-earned dollars to come to an expensive city to cheer on the Cats and revel in what was shaping up to be the program’s return to postseason glory.

To his credit, in addition to telling reporters that he wanted his team to use the event to improve their NCAA Tournament seed, Calipari said he regrets that fans who made the trip will be headed home early.

“You know what this is, this was about seed. It was also about our fans. I told them that. We got a lot of people that traveled, spent money. This is their opportunity to watch this team. But this tournament for us was about the seed. You got to win and you got to advance to improve your seed.”