What are your expectations for this Kentucky basketball season? Vote in our poll.

With the college basketball season tipping off Monday and Kentucky once again a main talking point around the sport, the Herald-Leader asked a group of national experts to predict how the Wildcats’ 2023-24 campaign will go.

We received feedback from quite a few folks who cover college basketball nationally, and you can read their thoughts on UK here.

What do you think? Will this be a run to remember for John Calipari and the Kentucky basketball program? Or will the Wildcats turn in another uneven season and go into March as an underdog?

How do you think the regular season will go for Kentucky?

That’s the question we posed to those national college basketball experts. And we want to know how you think UK’s season will go, too. Which of these options best describes your prediction on where the Wildcats will find themselves on Selection Sunday?

▪ 1 seed: Star freshmen excel right off the bat, and UK marches through the season.

▪ 2-3 seed: Kentucky goes into March as one of the top 10 teams in the country.

▪ 4-6 seed: Some struggles along the way, but UK is a realistic, high-upside Final Four contender.

▪ 7 seed or worse: Kentucky makes the NCAA Tournament, but it’s another uneven season.

▪ No NCAA Tournament: UK’s struggles last throughout the season. No March Madness.

Please vote in our poll here:

This story was originally published October 31, 2023 at 10:00 AM.

Ben Roberts

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Ben Roberts is the University of Kentucky men’s basketball beat writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader. He has previously specialized in UK basketball recruiting coverage and created and maintained the Next Cats blog. He is a Franklin County native and first joined the Herald-Leader in 2006. Support my work with a digital subscription