A surprising thing has happened to this UK basketball team since SEC play started. It could be a sign of better things to come.

Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats needed a win Saturday night. It wasn’t pretty — and, for a long while, it looked like it wasn’t coming at all — but the Cats earned that victory in the end.

Kentucky rallied from a 17-point deficit to stun No. 24 Tennessee 80-78 on the road Saturday, as the Wildcats completed their third straight double-digit comeback in SEC play. Just as they did at LSU ...