[Kentucky] display[s] what I would consider a far cry from team oriented ball.

You've got a great point. Indeed, Kentucky's four leading scorers last night had 15, 15, 15, and 14 points, respectively. Hardly the stat line of a team effort. Some might say the game winning play was a quintessential "team" play, where a star player drives the ball into the paint and passes out of a triple-team to an open teammate in the corner, who hits the game winning shot. But people who say that would be dumb.

While we're on the subject of superstars learning to play as a team, two players from UK's 2012 national championship squad went 1-2 in the subsequent NBA draft. The coach proudly noted that the #1 pick took the fifth-most shots on that team and the #2 pick took the fourth-most shots on the team. He also said: "We led the nation in five different categories as a team. We were talented but we were also the best team."

He was obviously lying.

Kentucky is definitely the most extreme example of individual talent ruining a team game, right? I mean, yes, they are still playing in the Elite Eight, but the Duke Jabari Parkers who lost to a 15-seed and the Kansas Andrew Wigginses who lost to a 10-seed are not half the disaster of basketball that is Kentucky.

Almost everything they do revolves around raw talent alone.

Indeed, the blatant attempts by college coaches and programs to harness and develop raw talent is one of the biggest scandals in college sports today. But nowhere is this more obvious than at Kentucky.

And I think it is safe to say the methods they use to get so many of the best with such high frequency is [sic] not always on the up and up.

This is so true. I mean, what aspiring NBA superstar would want to spend a year or two or four practicing at the $30 million Joe Craft Center, living with the other players at the state-of-the-art Wildcat Lodge, or playing games at 23,500 seat Rupp Arena (the largest basketball-specific arena in the United States where UK has led the nation in home attendance 17 out of the last 19 years). What talented, ambitious kid out there would want to play for a program with eight national championships, the most total victories all-time, and 17 NBA draft picks in the current coach's first four years at the program? Rather, players probably choose Kentucky for non-up-and-up reasons with high frequency, as you suggest.

I mean in all honesty give them props for moving on but it all just seems sketchy.

That was a well-played game with dozens of interesting storylines. It came down to the last minute. The winning team was once down double digits and had lost one of its key interior players for the game, but fought back to win, only leading on the scoreboard for 65 seconds the entire game.

But the first thing I thought of also after watching that riveting nail-biter was just how sketchy it all seems.

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