@ssdtvnetwork: Gilbert Arenas and DeMarcus Cousins debate Kentucky vs. Arizona🤔 John Wall’s 2009–10 Kentucky Wildcats and Gilbert Arenas’ 2000–01 Arizona Wildcats belong in the same college basketball conversation, but the record does not produce one simple winner. Kentucky finished 35–3 under John Calipari, won 14 of 16 SEC games and allowed only 64.9 points per game. Wall supplied 16.6 points and 6.5 assists on his way to consensus first-team All-America honors, while DeMarcus Cousins put up 15.1 points and 9.8 rebounds in just 23.5 minutes per game. Patrick Patterson added 14.3 points and 7.4 rebounds. Kentucky entered the NCAA Tournament as the No. 1 seed in the East and won its first three tournament games by an average of 25.3 points. That is the case for Kentucky: a 92.1% winning percentage, a powerful frontcourt and a defense that gave up 1.4 fewer points per game than Arizona. Arizona’s case is built on its tournament ceiling. The Wildcats finished 28–8, beat Michigan State 80–61 in the Final Four and played Duke for the national championship. Arenas led a balanced group with 16.2 points per game; Michael Wright scored 15.6, Loren Woods 13.2, Richard Jefferson 11.3 and Jason Gardner 10.9. Arizona averaged 79.8 points in the NCAA Tournament and had at least four players score in double figures in five of its six tournament games. That five-man scoring core produced 67.2 points per game, compared with 63.8 for Kentucky’s principal five. The posted percentage labels also need cleaning up: Bledsoe’s 38.3% and Arenas’ 41.6% were three-point marks, not field-goal percentages. This is a college basketball argument, so later NBA careers cannot settle it. The sound verdict is Kentucky for the more dominant full season and Arizona for the deeper March run. #CollegeBasketball #KentuckyBasketball #ArizonaBasketball #NCAAB #tiktokgrowthchallenge

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