If revenge really is a dish best served cold, this group of Kentucky players are cold-blooded Cats.The payback tour of 2011 has been swift and sweet for Kentucky. North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Ole Miss and Florida — all teams that beat UK earlier this year that later paid the consequences in the second meeting. Considering some of this year’s team had to experience the heartbreak of the West Virginia loss last season, you could throw in the third-round win over the Mountaineers for good measure, too.Nicknames are floating around Lexington to anoint this team among some of the all-time favorites like the Untouchables, the Unforgettables and the Fiddlin’ Five, to name a few. Names like the Unexpectables and the Unpredictables have been tossed around, but the best one, the most fitting one, says senior forward Josh Harrellson, may revolve around the Cats’ ability to achieve a little redemption.”I like Payback Cats,” Harrellson said. “I guess we are on the road to payback everybody. The only team we can’t get is Arkansas.”Now comes Connecticut, the only team other than Arkansas on the scheudule Kentucky has not beaten this season. The Huskies delivered UK its biggest defeat of the year, an 84-67 drilling in the finals of the EA Sports Maui Invitational.Kemba Walker scored 29 points in that game, the beginning of his season-long ascension to becoming one of the best players in the game, but this Kentucky team is a far different group than the one that came home Thanksgiving day stuffed with a full serving of humility.”Everybody was selfish that entire tournament, especially the last game,” junior guard DeAndre Liggins said. “As the season kept going on we kept progressing and getting better as a team and coming together like a group. This is where we are now.”Beating a team twice is difficult enough, but to deny five teams from repeating success is an equally impressive achievement. “A lot of those teams we played early in the season,” Knight said. “We’ve gotten a lot better since that point. We’ve kind of got a chip on our shoulders losing those games, so I think we want to come out and prove that, in the beginning, we weren’t as good as we thought we were and we have gotten better.”

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