Kentucky throttled Louisville again. Yes, throttled. The game brought questions …

• What can be more scary for SEC teams than facing a Kentucky team that shot 29.8 percent and throttled the nation’s No. 4 ranked team?

• Did Kentucky play six-on-five against Louisville? Anthony Davis left of the lane and Anthony Davis on the right.

• With fan and media love raging for Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Davis, how will John Calipari handle a Terrence Jones become third banana? Or, attempts to impress NBA scouts?

• By design or happenstance, Calipari’s coaching gem New Year’s Eve – Peyton Siva, Kyle Kuric shut-down, three of 17 shooting. Neither was ever a factor.

• Best laugh lines? Calipari naturally. “This is only one game,” he said. “C’mon, it’s not that big a deal.”

Bill Keightley and a nation disagree.

Louisville? Cardinals were frenetic, disjointed, confused and not ready for:

1. This caliber road game after cupcake diet at home over two months.

2. Pitino-style aggressive defense to test game officials was bad idea in lieu of the Xavier-Cincinnati fracas.

Hunch: Pitino announced he will coach through 2017. Says here he won’t.

YEAR 2011 REFLECTIONS

Extra-ordinaries in sports? What event/personality makes your worth recalling list?

• Auburn’s march to college football title, unbeaten.

• Green Bay Packers won another Super Bowl.

• St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series.

• Connecticut won the men’s NCAA Tournament.

Closer to home …

• New SEC will include Texas A&M and Missouri.

• Murray State’s unbeaten run to college hoops Top 25.

• 112th Army-Navy game? Entertaining and patriotic, Midshipmen made it 10 in a row, 27-21.

Other possibles …

• Run for the Roses. Anyone this side of encyclopedic Churchill Downs’ publicist John Asher remember the Kentucky Derby winner was Animal Kingdom?

• British Senior Open winner. Kentuckian Russ Cochran won it. Paducah native, 52-year-old Cochran cashed a check for $310,000.

• Trivia question for Big Blue Nation’s party – who won the Indy Car World Championship? Answer: Ashley Judd’s spouse. Dario Franchitti.

Villains of the year …

• NBA players and owners.

• Cam Newton at Florida then Auburn.

• Multi-millionaire Albert Pujols left St. Louis for more millions in California?

• Tiger Woods, Bruce Pearl or Richie Farmer?

• Coach Jim Calhoun currently serving an NCAA suspension for recruiting violations at UConn.

• Rumor-mongering New York media who guaranteed last summer John Calipari was leaving Kentucky for the New York Knicks.

My choice: Along with athletic department administrators who perjured themselves, villain of 2011 is Larry Sandusky at Penn State.

Runner-up: Harvey Updike, 62-year-old Crimson Tide fan from Dadeville, Alabama who poisoned the oak trees at Auburn’s Toomer’s Corner.

Disappointment Dept.

• Kentucky’s football Wildcats made no progress against Florida, South Carolina, Georgia or LSU.

• Any/all college athletic department officials or coaches who accepted pay raises or bonuses in 2011.

Sports person of the year

Pat Summitt, University of Tennessee.

Success, courage, tenacity and personal will are basic qualifiers. Summitt is a cut above this year not only because of her courage facing illness, but impact of how she handles herself as millions of children look on, particularly young girls.

HARRELLSON & COUSINS

Josh Harrellson made his NBA debut last week. The UK graduate started for the Knicks, scored 14, had 12 rebounds. On the Left Coast one-and-done DeMarcus Cousins was suspended by Sacramento again and has demanded the Kings trade him.

Glaring new evidence that four-and-done (Harrellson) works and John Calipari’s one-and-done recruiting approach is clear exploitation of immature, not-ready-for prime time kids.

And so it goes.