Trust me,

If any of Billy Gillispie’s peers in the SEC have votes in the USA Today coaches poll, you just gave UK some great motivation. I’m not kidding.

One week after the absolute trashing of Tennessee, who has beat such teams as Marquette and Georgetown this season, in Knoxville and then easily dismantling Georgia at home, UK goes from no votes to…. 12?

Really, 12?

You already have Jodie Meeks trying to show everyone how much of a superstar he really is (and he is, especially if he drops a few more 40, 50 point games. We could be speaking about the best UK player, ever). Patrick Patterson COMMANDS sagging defense and double, triple teams.

Do you really want to give these guys anymore reason to go off?

Well you did.

Here’s the thing, in Joe Lunardi’s Bracketology (which is usually almost 100 percent right, down to the seeds every year) has UK as a six seed. That would put them somewhere between the 21st and 24th best team in the nation. Right now, the AP has them as the 28th best. The coaches? 34th.

Gentlemen of the SEC, be prepared. Your fellow coaches just starved a hungry, hungry monster.

And the double-headed dragon of Patterson and Meeks has you in their sights.