It is too early to anoint this year’s Kentucky Wildcats as one of the best college basketball teams ever, but it is hard to deny that the team’s defense is unbelievable. One Louisville professor takes that belief to the next level—he thinks the NCAA should ban the “smothering, corrupt” defense that held his Cardinals to 50 points and a paltry 25.9% shooting from the field.

Dr. Michael Cassaro, a professor emeritus at Louisville, wrote in to The Courier-Journal about how Kentucky’s defense may spell “doom” for college basketball.

I watched the Louisville-Kentucky game Saturday and came away with the perception that I had not witnessed basketball as I know it should be played. This is the only Kentucky game I saw this season. One team smothered its opponent, not randomly, but totally. My belief is that Kentucky’s coach has planned, through recruitment and coaching tactics, to build a program that smothers and bullies opponents rather than play basketball the way it should be played. Inevitably, this corruption of college basketball will doom the sport at the college level. No team wants to play that kind of program. I don’t understand how Kentucky’s players tolerate the loss of athletic play in their present up-and-down routine where true competition is never achieved. The NCAA should reject this corrupted play before other schools reject submitting their programs to participate.

Tell us how you really feel, Dr. Cassaro.

[The Courier-Journal]