UK chose to overlook the rumors and questionable past of UK Basketball Coach John Calipari ... in order to "win".  Can UK overlook Coach Cal's 'present' and 'future' in the name of "winning"?

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The Kentucky Wildcats face off in the Music City Bowl on December 27th against the Clemson Tigers. This will be the Wildcats' third trip to Nashville in the post season ... can the Cats get up for one more game this year or will they fall to the Clemson Tigers?

Kentucky has been here before. Victorious in 2006 and 2007's Music City Bowls, will the Wildcats view this trip as ho-hum return trip to Nashville? That is difficult to determine, but one thing is for sure: Rich Brooks tends to have his football team's attention when it comes to bowl season.

Kentucky has never had four straight bowl appearances in school history until now.

This game will come down to two simple things: Kentucky must be able to get the ball to Derrick Locke and Randall Cobb on offense ... and not allowing the homerun pass while stopping CJ Spiller on defense.

Sounds easy enough until you look at the stats.

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The Kentucky Wildcats take down the NC Tarheels 68-66 on John Wall's   free throws with 4.3 seconds remaining.

While most of the SEC's eyes were on Atlanta for the SEC Football Championship, the fifth ranked Kentucky Wildcats played a rude host to tenth ranked North Carolina in Lexington in front of Rupp Arena's largest ever crowd.

If you do not read Danny Jett daily, then you have no idea what you are missing. Danny Jett's site is a MUST read for University of Kentucky sports insight. We recently contacted DJ and performed an interview regarding what to expect from the Kentucky Wildcat's basketball program this season.

I was impressed with Danny before the interview, but must say that coming out of it, have a higher respect for him. Unlike other commentators that we have interviewed in the past, DJ dodged NO questions and gave us his take ... even to the questions regarding Coach Calipari's coaching history and World Wide Wes ... in this day and time, that is very rare. Trust me, we've asked others and could barely get a 'no comment' out of them no matter how the question was phrased.