The Kentucky Wildcats continued to live up to their No. 1 preseason ranking after dismantling Georgetown College in their final exhibition game Sunday night. Georgetown coach Chris Briggs was more than impressed with UK's performance.

"Those guys are unreal," Georgetown coach Chris Briggs told reporters after the Wildcats defeated the Tigers 121-52 at Rupp Arena. "I told the guys in the locker room, [the Wildcats] could have beaten some NBA teams tonight, there's no question in my mind."

Briggs didn't stop there, though. The effusive praise continued to flow.

"I knew they were good coming into this game, but sitting out there watching it on the sideline, honestly I don't see how they're going to get beat this year," said Briggs, whose team saw Kentucky shoot 64 percent from the field and record assists on 32 of its 46 baskets. "I don't like to say that, because I know people have off nights, and things can happen and this and that, and injuries and things like that, but if they play like they did tonight, they're an NBA playoff team."

UK coach John Calipari disagreed, however, because someone in this story had to be the voice of reason.

The Wildcats joined UCLA, UNLV and North Carolina as the only schools to be named the preseason No. 1 team in consecutive seasons since the AP poll began in 1961-62. This year's team has been lauded for its incredible depth.

"I don't know what to tell you," said Briggs, whose team won the 2013 NAIA national title. "We did everything we could. We went zone, we tried man, we tried trapping the post. We tried it all. It's going to take an extremely off night and an extremely great night out of somebody who has big-time NBA talent as well to get those guys."

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