John Calipari can exaggerate with the best of them. That’s why, when Calipari constantly says the UK men’s basketball team is the youngest team in America, reporters often chuckle.It turns out he isn’t joking.Of the 65 teams in the NCAA Tournament field, Kentucky is the youngest team in terms of experience. According to KenPom.com, the Cats average 0.85 years of experience, far and away the youngest team in the Big Dance. Gonzaga, an eight seed, is the closest with 1.24 years of experience. In fact, of the 347 team in Division I men’s basketball, only six teams had less experience than Kentucky this year. Those six teams combined to go 76-111 (.406 winning percentage) in the regular season and none made the NCAA Tournament.”We are the youngest team in the tournament,” Calipari said. “You don’t know what’s going to happen when you get in there. The experience that we got in the SEC (Tournament) was very good for us. It builds confidence. It did some good stuff for us. But, again, this is going to be a hard road for a young team like this.”What’s even more worrisome or amazing, depending on how you look at it, is that most of Kentucky’s experience is loaded on the bench in the form of reserves. When it comes to who plays the most minutes and who starts, the Cats are as green as it gets.UK’s traditional starting five of John Wall, Eric Bledsoe, Darius Miller, DeMarcus Cousins and Patrick Patterson had three years of experience between them entering this season (two with Patterson and one with Miller) and zero years of postseason experience (Patterson did not play in the NCAA Tournament in 2008 because of an injury). (Even more, the first two players off the bench are usually Daniel Orton, a freshman, and Darnell Dodson, a sophomore.)Only Michigan’s Fab Five, a starting collection of five freshmen that went to the national championship game in 1992, can lay claim to having conquered a tougher road than Kentucky.For a better perspective, look at the 2007 Ohio State team that lost to Florida in the national championship. The Buckeyes, led by superstar freshmen Greg Oden and Mike Conley, were lauded for overcoming their youth and inexperience in making it to the national title game.And yet when the numbers add up, Kentucky seems like a group of toddlers when compared to that Ohio State team. The Buckeyes averaged 1.73 years of experience that season, according to KenPom.com, a full year more than UK.Sure, there have been younger teams in the past, but few of those have found success in the NCAA Tournament.In 2007, Kevin Durant and his fourth-seeded Texas Longhorns entered the tournament with an average of 0.41 years of experience but were bounced in the second round. Duke, a No. 6 seed in 2007 with a 0.79 experience average, and Southern California, a No. 6 seed in 2008 with a 0.66 experience average, suffered similar early exits in their respective seasons of youth. Like those teams, UK team is raw, inexperienced and untested heading into the NCAA Tournament. But boy is it talented. Which trait will weigh the most? Over the next three weeks of Madness we’ll find out.