LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — So it’s not going to be a care-free romp to the Final Four after all for the Kentucky basketball team. It’ll be potholes and bruises. Growing pains and grimaces.

And they started Thursday night in Rupp Arena, with Georgetown playing the role of early-season dentist, extracting confidence without anesthesia.

Six nights ago, Kentucky looked like the next big thing in college basketball. It buried Purdue under a pile of shooters and substitutions. It played ten-deep with flair. It felt fun.

This didn’t.

This was 84-70. Georgetown over Kentucky. A Big East team picked to finish sixth walked into the House That Rupp Built and knocked all the china off the shelves.

And Mark Pope, new architect of this vintage blue empire, didn’t offer excuses. He offered truth in a

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