Winners and losers

The Interim champ passed a serious test against the young but dangerous Michael McDonald last night. A very reasonable respect for McDonald's sharp straight punches limited Barao's ability to employ his leg kicks. Without his bread and butter offensive weapon, Barao had to adjust his approach and he did it very well, hurting McDonald on the feet and submitting him on the ground. Now Barao has to await the recovery and return of injured champ Dominick Cruz. Dana White hopes to put that fight on this summer.

Swanson trained for Dennis Siver but Siver's injury forced Cub to face a very different, but very formidable Dustin Poirier. It was clear the change in opponents and Poirier's varied skill set gave Swanson a bit of trouble that required numerous mid-fight adjustments in his game plan. Swanson pulled it out with a very dominant third round. Swanson probably needs one more win to earn a rematch with Featherweight champion Jose Aldo who beat him back in the WEC days.

The British fighter won not one but two Fight Night bonuses, picking up a grand total of $100,000 for his Fight of the Night and Knockout of the Night performance against Stanislav Nedkov. He upped the ante with a brilliant post-fight speech that saw him call out any Middleweight on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). In a division with known users such as Vitor Belfort and Chael Sonnen, this is smart self-promotion.

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Despite ending with back-to-back excellent fights, the bulk of the card featured snoozy decision after snoozy decision. Fighters laid on the mat. Fighters leaned into the cage. London fans showed a great deal of patience by not booing the lack of action, but they surely weren't pleased by the paucity of action.

The 24-year-old Grispi dropped his fourth straight UFC bout against Andy Ogle and the fight summed up his career - flashes of early promise followed by a failure to adapt and wilting in the face of adversity. After the fight Ogle said, "you're a bad man" and Grispi replied, "I was." That's just sad to hear from a young athlete who should be on the upswing, not on his way out of the UFC.

Just last week, NCAA tournament selection committee chair Mike Bobinski hosted the first of a handful of teleconferences heading toward Selection Sunday. It was just a day after Nerlens Noel tore his anterior cruciate ligament, so naturally Bobinski was asked how the loss of Kentucky's best player would affect the Wildcats' chance at an NCAA tourney berth.

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If this were an audition for the tourney bracket, the director would be yelling, "Next!"

Just barely on the bubble to begin with -- Kentucky has zero top-50 RPI wins now that free-falling Ole Miss has dropped to 51 -- the Wildcats were quickly dumped to the First Four Out by Joe Lunardi on Saturday afternoon (remember, even before Noel got hurt, UK was getting essentially run out of the gym by Florida).

There is no question that losing Noel is a huge blow, but it is not just in terms of X's and O's.

That Tennessee loss -- and give the Vols credit for playing a near-flawless game (especially point guard Trae Golden) -- exposed the real crux of the problem for Kentucky sans Noel.

For most of the season, he has been the only one playing with a combination of consistent ferocity and passion. The rest of the team tends to disappear frequently, lollygags on defense often and shows such dispassionate body language at times that you have to wonder whether the players are clock-watching.

In Noel's absence, his freshman classmates Willie Cauley-Stein, Alex Poythress and Archie Goodwin combined for 13 points, 13 fouls and nine turnovers.

A year after coaching one of the best collections of hard-working, unselfish players, Calipari has a group he cannot cajole, bullwhip or beg into cohesion.

It has gotten so bad that the coach spent the week before the Florida game talking about his team's need to find love. Not the Valentine kind, but the bromance of basketball.

Thanks to the cottony soft bubble, Kentucky isn't dead yet. But the Grim Reaper is standing by. The Wildcats have six regular-season games left -- four that can only hurt them (against Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Arkansas and Georgia) and two that will mean everything (visits from Missouri and Florida).