Wiedmer: Sometimes game is painfully simple

And because he's collecting all that money, we like to think the formula for those victories could rival Einstein's theory of relativity, or at least the Colonel's secret recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

But sometimes it's a pretty simple game. If you get more rebounds, you win. Especially when there are so many rebounds to collect because Tennessee is torturing 37 of its 55 field-goal attempts by slamming them into steel and glass against the Tigers' angry hands at the same time Memphis is mistreating 37 of its 56 attempts in similarly cruel fashion.

When one team (Memphis) is shooting 34 percent in the same game the other team is shooting 33, rebounding becomes everything.

“What I told the guys was it was going to be a war," Calipari said afterward.