Shocker! Social media goes wild as No. 1 Kentucky basketball falls to Evansville
The month of November is already a rollercoaster for Kentucky basketball. The Wildcats started the 2019-20 campaign with a win over No. 1 Michigan State, which boosted UK to the new No. 1. The Cats won’t be staying there long, however, as Evansville came into Rupp Arena and won 67-64 on Tuesday night.
Here’s a video showing how Kentucky’s shocking loss ended:
#1 Kentucky goes down.
This. Is. NOVEMBER.
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) November 13, 2019
What an absolute stunner. That's the worst loss of John Calipari's Kentucky career — at least regular-season, for sure. Not even close in that category.
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) November 13, 2019
As you can imagine, the outcome has everybody talking. With it coming on the same night of the College Football Playoff selection committee rankings, there were a lot of jokes about John Calipari’s squad not making the Playoff. A Kentucky loss naturally gets the attention of observers of other SEC basketball programs, too. Here’s a small sample of what’s being said on social media right now:
LMFAO @BarstoolUK REALLY LOST TO EVANSVILLE😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
— Barstool Rocky Top (@BarstoolTenn) November 13, 2019
*ahem*
Things could always be worse pic.twitter.com/mBEcKecPyB— Rowdy Reptiles (@MBKRowdies) November 13, 2019
I caught it in stunning 240p. Thanks ESPN+!! https://t.co/7uFU3qSseC
— Trey Biddy (@TreyBiddy) November 13, 2019
THE SHOT IS SHORT AND THE PURPLE ACES HAVE UPSET #1 KENTUCKY IN LEXINGTON!!!!!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/AKy5iskSdZ
— Go Irish!☘ (7-2) #BeatNavy (@ESPNFootball19) November 13, 2019
LEADERBOARD UPDATE
MORE LIKE BIG BRUTALITY NATION AM I RIGHT FOLKS #BBN https://t.co/ggZq7Ln3qD https://t.co/p31XBR0S3R
— Chris Schutte (@ChrisSchutte3) November 13, 2019
Kentucky PAID Evansville $90,000 to play in this game
😂😂😂 https://t.co/7iEvuqnX8g— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) November 13, 2019
Kentucky goes down. Crazy
— David Waters – Gators Breakdown (@GatorDave_SEC) November 13, 2019
*finger to ear
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm being informed we have a GRADE 1 OUTBREAK OF #SECBASKETBALLFEVER https://t.co/hI5rH94wp6
— PodKATT (@valleyshook) November 13, 2019
University of Evansville has 2,500 students.
They should all be excused from obligations tomorrow. Add Nov. 12 to the university holiday calendar forevermore— Dayne Young (@dayneyoung) November 13, 2019
Rupp Arena playing country music after Kentucky falls to Evansville is salt in the wound
“Tear down my hometown”? That’s what we’re going with right now?
— Maggie Davis (@MaggieDavisKSR) November 13, 2019
Evansville was Kenpom 169 coming into tonight's game.
— Brian Evans (@KSRBEvans) November 13, 2019
Has a team ever beaten No. 1, become No. 1 and lost to a 24.5-point dog at home in the span of a week?
— Kyle Tucker (@KyleTucker_ATH) November 13, 2019
So this means Evansville is another Indiana school John Calipari will only play on a neutral floor from here on out, right?
— Ben Portnoy (@bportnoy15) November 13, 2019
PUT EVANSVILLE IN THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS YOU COWARDS
— Tom Eble (@Tom_Eble) November 13, 2019
Remember last Tuesday night? When everybody was having fun? Anybody wanna talk about that?
— Maggie Davis (@MaggieDavisKSR) November 13, 2019
Hilarious that college sports teams have no choice but to tweet sad loss graphics because they’ve already sold the inventory to Fayette Heating & Air pic.twitter.com/pRuLTdyXRl
— Connor Tapp (@ConnorTapp247) November 13, 2019
Good news!
Now Kentucky has the quality loss an SEC team needs to crack the top four in the playoff rankings
— MATT BROWN (@MattSBN) November 13, 2019
Yikes!
They just need to admit they’re a football school now.
LMAO
Wow
Darn I missed it!
Did Dancing and Prancing Cal get to show his moves?
Well, there goes the 40-0 season.
I bet Walter McCarty would come to Kentucky for a third of Cal’s salary and we wouldn’t have to wonder if his recruits are playing for the name or the back of the jersey.
Evansville is a good basketball program historically.
Yeah but they’ve done pretty much nothing since the 90s.
Different sport, but I feel your pain. Happens to every team. No, Florida your are not excluded despite what you think.
And Florida got so much crap for losing to a power five squad
I never thought I’d say this, but I’m starting to agree with Paris10. I strongly disagree with his stance of never being happy when Calipari or Stoops wins though. However, I see his point of view. Calipari is NOT a good coach. You have to look at the facts. He can recruit like nobody else except maybe Coach K, but that’s it. He’s a horrible in-game coach. I’m sick of his mediocre coaching performances in the post seasons, losing games we should’ve won, & his free-throws don’t matter mantra. Free throws do in fact matter. We could’ve won the game tonight if he cared about them. He would’ve won it all in 2008 at Memphis, but free throws came back to bite him. They DO in fact matter. As a season ticket holder at Rupp, I’m going to be annoyed to see him there for another 10 years. The lifetime contract was a huge mistake. All he does is recruit & develop players for the NBA, but I do not care about the NBA, and most fans don’t either. He is supposed to coach Kentucky to win national championships, with players drafted in the 1st round as a secondhand statistic. Only winning 1 title in ten years here isn’t good enough. I don’t care how many players from UK are in the NBA. He’s only won 1 title, and if he was actually a good in-game coach he would have at minimum 3+. The loss tonight was beyond inexcusable and the final straw for me. Always gave Cal the benefit of the doubt, but no longer. A different coach with the recruiting resources of Kentucky who can actually coach well would have more than 1 title in 10 years and wouldn’t have lost the games Cal has lost. I don’t know if Cal will win more than 1 title in the next 10 years, yet alone another. That is painful for me to say, but it’s the reality. We should’ve won it all in 2014 vs UCONN, 2015 vs Wisconsin, and we shouldn’t have lost in 2016 to Indiana in the round of 32, 2017 to UNC in the elite 8, 2018 to Kansas State of all teams in the sweet 16, & 2019 to Auburn in the elite 8, along with the Tennessee SEC championship game loss. But it’s all fine as long as we’re sending people to the NBA and have the most 1st round picks according to Cal. No, it’s not!
And to add on, with the exception probably being 2017 UNC, we were the better team in ALL THOSE GAMES THAT WE LOST.
I don’t post to have anyone agree with me. But thank you.
NOW if we would look at football as it is, and quit thinking the AD and this coach is going to make us a contender.
Look at the season as a whole.
Who we have beat, and who we haven’t.
Throw out the flimsy excuse we don’t have any available quarterbacks. Consider WHY we don’t have any available QBs.
We had a great season last year.
We are going to allow ‘our version of Stoops’ to stay, no matter the won or loss record, until 2025. And I don’t think I need to mention a half million dollar raise, EACH YEAR until then.
When we get an athletic director who really wants us to competitive and not just a member of the SEC in football we might enjoy our program.
I really doubt I will live to see it, but maybe you can. s
And the reason I don’t buy in on the quarterback excuse.
We aren’t the only team that has quarterbacks injured.
But we might be the only team that hasn’t developed a quarterback we recruited out of high school that hasn’t played any substantial time on the field.
All those recruit and nothing to show for it.
WHY?
I think you know, but let’s continue to ignore it.
BBN
If you don’t like KY Hoops I suggest you sell your tickets. Calipari has brought excitement back to Kentucky. Calipari early on said Kentucky is a “players first” program. Clearly he has the support of the University on this philosophy.
As for Paris, he is a pathological liar that makes up facts to support his bitterness and hate. If you are in his camp you must have similar issues
Calamari will get those boys straight by quarter promise that.
As a Tennessee fan ive watched it before. They will be talking different about them at tournament time and it will be because of stuff like this. GBO
Definitely on the bubble now!
It’s s looong season and no one games a difference. Kinda like MLB/NBA. That’s why the season is a little cheap. All you have to do is win enough to get into the tournament. I wouldn’t worry too much about Ky. Carry on.
This had me feeling different about Auburn’s close call against South Alabama last night. A wins a win…especially this early in the season.
Never go full Chad Morris.
I welcome anyone to check the facts to see if I’ve ‘made up’ anything.
Especially the individual that make the statement that I do.
At least Cal saved ‘we had to play against eight tonight’, meaning the officials were the reason for the loss.
And the reason we keep our season tickets for the Kentucky games, they make wonderful Christmas presents for the ‘baby seals games’.
I am old enough to remember that terrible night in December of 1977 when the Evansville basketball team perished in a plane crash en route to Nashville to play Middle Tennessee State in Murfreesboro. I remember that one player was not on the flight due to an injury. A couple weeks later, he was killed in an automobile accident. It obviously will never undo the tragedy, but it’s nice that the Purple Aces are getting national headlines today for something positive.