With all the hoopla surrounding men’s basketball, I wrongfully overlooked the release of the latest women’s college basketball polls.Fortunately, it’s never too late to pass along a little good UK news.The UK Hoops team is picking up votes in both major polls after an 8-0 start to the season, which is just one win shy of the best start to a season set by the 1980-81 squad. The Cats have picked up two votes in the Associated Press Poll and five votes in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Poll.Technically speaking, UK is ranked No. 42 in the AP poll and No. 41 in the ESPN/USA Today Poll. Should UK crack the top 25 in the next few weeks, it would be the first top-25 ranking since the Cats checked in at No. 24 during week four of the 2006-07 season.Who would have thought we would be talking about top-25 rankings when UK was picked to finish 11th in the Southeastern Conference in the preseason? The league is either the best group of talent ever assembled or Kentucky is significantly better than a lot of people expected.UK’s schedule has been fairly mediocre to start the season – the Cats’ strength of schedule is ranked at the 173rd toughest in the nation – but should get significantly tougher once the conference slate rolls around.Coming from someone who has seen all but one of the Cats’ home games, I believe they’re built to hover around the top 25 for the rest of the season.

Oh, and remember, Kentucky is one of only two schools in the nation with both an undefeated men’s and undefeated women’s basketball team. Syracuse is the only other school.

Basketball is officially back in Kentucky.