Coach John Calipari has now been at Kentucky for 10 years, and he’s had some incredible teams during his tenure in Lexington.

He’s won one national championship and has made it to the Final Four four times, coaching a number of future NBA stars in the process.

So, how does this year’s squad compare? On Wednesday in Jacksonville, ahead of the Wildcats’ NCAA Tournament opener against Abilene Christian, Coach Cal was asked to compare the 2019 Wildcats to his past teams (via ASAPSports.com):

Q. You’ve consistently had success recruiting players that have a future in the NBA. How do your players on this team compare to the great players you’ve coached in the past?
JOHN CALIPARI: Every team I’ve coached is different, and I mean that literally. Like I come in each year and it’s a brand new team.

This team is skilled, one of the higher skilled teams that I’ve had. This team has been able to stay in the moment and be about each other, which in this day and age with social media, with the clutter around them, with the people, you know, the flattery they get, which is you’re better than so and so, you should be shooting more shots, why — they hear this, being enabled, and to fight that, this team has done unbelievable.

Is there an Anthony Davis or a Karl Towns — they all get mad. All 30 of them want me to mention them right now. Do you guys mind if I mention all 30? (Laughter). The $2 billion in contracts those kids make? I can do it if you want me to. But these kids are different.

Now, they’re professionals, too. They’re going to be in that league. But they’re doing it together. And different guys are doing it. The one advantage we have with this year’s team is Reid Travis. I mean, I’ve not coached a 23-year-old since I left UMass, and he is so professional in how he handles everything, practices, preparation, training himself and also getting his body right. You know, he’s one of those guys.

Now, he’s not been in this tournament, so he’s another one that you look at, other than PJ, the other guys really — Nick played a few minutes, but he’s not — they’ve not been significant in this thing. So that’s something we’ve got to see how it turns out.

As a No. 2 seed in this year’s tourney, the Wildcats will be picked by many to make a deep tournament run.

Can the Cats make it to Cal’s fifth Final Four with Kentucky? Can they win the second title? We’ll see starting Thursday.