Alex Wilkins just saved Kentucky from a "Gates of Hell" level brutality.
The Wildcats survive in Lexington, but all of this looms before SEC play:
Indiana (Lucas Oil Stadium)
At Virginia
Louisville
North Carolina (MSG, CBS Sports Classic)
Northern Arizona was 0-3, picked last in the Big Sky, and came in ranked No. 299 overall and No. 357 defensively
Alex Wilkins very likely saves the season—and Mark Pope's job—with that game-winner. Just a massive, massive shot.
If Alex Wilkins had missed that shot I would have said that Coach Pope needed to be fired by Monday.
Everything that I believe in as a basketball “analyst” would say that him making or missing that shot should mean nothing.
I will admit I don’t have the hear to say it after a…