INDIANAPOLIS – He, too, a bit shocked, a bit in disbelief, a bit in amazement at the type of turnaround his young team had just completed, John Calipari sat at the dais in the bowels of Lucas Oil Stadium and tried to review the silliness of a bunch of 18- and 19-year-old kids defying the odds, forgetting the past and coming together for one of the most unforgettable turnarounds in recent college basketball memory.”We played six – no, we played seven freshmen today, didn’t we?”Seven of them, to be clear. Seven of them to the Final Four.Supposedly too young and too inexperienced to repeat what happened two years ago – a notion backed up by the 10 losses in the regular season – these Kentucky Wildcats are apparently just too stubborn to care what people say can’t happen and what’s really never been done for.Sure, the 2012 national title team was headlined by freshmen like Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, but even that group pales in comparison to the youth of this 2014 Final Four team.Freshmen were responsible for 53.3 percent and 54.0 percent of the minutes on that title team. Through 38 games this year, UK’s nine freshmen account for 81.8 percent of the scoring and 75.3 percent of the minutes.According to ESPN Stats & Info, UK is the first team to start five freshmen in an Elite Eight game since Michigan’s Fab Five did it in 1992.But eat your heart out, you young guns at Kentucky, even you are topping that legendary Michigan team. The Fab Five – the entirety of that team’s freshman class – were only responsible for 75.3 percent of the scoring and 68.5 percent of the minutes that season. “Doesn’t matter about the age or anything anymore,” Aaron Harrison said. “We just try to get out and fight and keep our heads down and swing the whole game, and we just fight so hard.”There’s more. With Willie Cauley-Stein sidelined due to a left ankle injury, the Cats became even younger for their Elite Eight game against second-seeded Michigan. Of the 75 points UK scored Sunday night, 67 of them were scored by freshmen. Of the 200 minutes of game, time, freshmen ate up 182 of them. They had 32 of the 35 rebounds, seven of the eight assists and all seven of the 3-pointers. Only now does it dawn upon everyone why it took time for this to work itself out.”They were trying,” Calipari said. “Loving the grind, learning to work, becoming self-disciplined, counting on one another, being their brother’s keeper, all that stuff. Losing themselves in the team. It’s hard when all seven of them scored 28 a game in high school.”It took them an entire season to surrender as well as a few adjustments from Cal, but when they finally came together, played for one another and surrendered to coaching, their talent really showed through.”When they all just settled in and lost themselves in the team, the game became easier,” Coach Cal said. “They became better. They had more fun. They became more confident. And all of a sudden this is what you have.”To bring you more expansive coverage, CoachCal.com and Cat Scratches will be joining forces for the postseason. You can read the same great stories you are accustomed to from both sites at CoachCal.com and UKathletics.com/blog, but now you’ll enjoy even more coverage than normal.