Wait 'til basketball season.

Oops. Again.

Kentucky was supposed to be prepping for Tuesday night's showdown at #1 North Carolina. Instead, the boys in blue lost their home opener in embarrassing fashion...for the second year in a row.

While Gardner-Webb may have put a bigger beating on the Cats in last year's 84-68 stunner in Rupp, tonight VMI - picked to finish seventh in the Big South - put not only a W on the board, but a take-notice one as well: they scored 111 points. At Rupp Arena.

The 111-103 win saw the Cats try and come back from a 23 point first half hole, and credit Jodie Meeks for dropping 39 points. But Kentucky shot 54% from the field...and lost. They outrebounded the Keydets by 21...and lost. They had their fancy new uniforms and Patrick Patterson's fro...and lost.

For Billy Gillespie, here's what's troubling: 3 of 16 from behind the new arc, only 67% from the free throw line in a game that VMI put away late at the stripe, a staggering 25 turnovers, and only 8 points from the aforementioned Patterson.

Even if UK had won by 50 tonight, we'd all expect them to get trounced Tuesday night against the unquestioned best team in America. But now, could it be another long winter for UK? And can they really expect a quick SEC turnaround to save their season again? Is there a coach in the SEC who's more immediately on the hot seat than Gillespie?

Basketball season is here, and it's already in trouble in Lexington.

And it's nice to watch somebody else struggle in unfathomable ways.

The Vols get Chattanooga at 7:00 PM.