John Calipari discussed what makes this Kentucky team so confident

Kentucky has a very confident basketball team, and that has been made clear by how unafraid they are to shoot the basketball.

Players like Rob Dillingham, Reed Sheppard, DJ Wagner, and Antonio Reeves aren't scared to take a big shot in a big moment, which will help this team in close games in the NCAA Tournament.

Sometimes, we see players struggle. Justin Edwards and Wagner have had an up-and-down season. Sometimes, Dillingham will have a bad half, but these guys never seem to lose confidence in one another. Dillingham has had many games where he isn't great in the first half, then figures things out in the second, including against Arkansas.

John Calipari had this to say about why players like Dillingham are so confident even when struggling, "Well they will just throw him the ball and they celebrate him. And I said for the rest of their basketball lives. What they seem to have learned. DJ, Robert, Aaron. I can go on and on. Guys within this team that have played a bad half. Knew that they were not going to play that way the second half. That's one battle. The second battle becomes – you have to have so much supreme confidence that no one can take it away. Not me, not a player on the other team, not an official, no one takes it away. The only way that you get that way is to live in the gym. I told them today, I've had players live in the gym. I've not had this many that live in the gym. That absolutely - they get work in. And they are building their own confidence. That's what they are doing and you got to have supreme confidence that even if I miss two I'm making the next two or I'm making a game- winner. I keep talking. You own your attitude. You own your response to stuff. That is being professional. You understand those things. If you don't, you're an amateur. You play well and you sit on the bench and you have bad body language. That's what a ninth grader does. That is a ninth grader. That's an amateur. The professional goes, alright, let me watch this because when I go back in I'm ready and I'm going to make something happen. We are trying to get through all of that kind of stuff with this team but you got a bunch of 19-year-olds."

Kentucky's ability to keep their confidence through the roller coaster of a season they have had is a big reason why this team will be dangerous in the NCAA Tournament.