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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen of the Big Blue Nation, and welcome to the Tuesday Quickies.
I haven’t had anything to say about the game Sunday — still in mourning, I suppose — but I will say that it was a good effort that just fell short. Getting beat at the buzzer hurts every team it happens to, and we’ve beaten a few teams that way ourselves; remember the North Carolina game back in the Anthony Davis era when he blocked the game-winner, or the Ohio State win when Brandon Knight was with us?
It’s tough when you lose that way, but that’s what makes the NCAA Tournament so dramatic and so popular. So a pat on the back to the Tar Heels for the win and for us, well… there’s always next season.
But that officiating, though. For my part, I’ll just leave it at that.
Tweet of the Morning
They're passing a rule against athleticism? What the heck? https://t.co/ljYPdyUnCi
— Michael DeCourcy (@tsnmike) March 28, 2017
Confuses the heck out of me too, Mike.
Also this:
The one comparison to Laettner's shot to Maye's I'll allow: both looked good from the moment they were shot. I had the same quiet "no!" feel
— Fake Gimel (@fakegimel) March 28, 2017
I knew it was good before it left his hand.
Your Quickies:
Kentucky football
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Bud Dupree’s home town names a street in his honor. Congrats, Bud!
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Kentucky offers incentives to faculty and staff for football season tix renewals.
Kentucky basketball
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A final grade for the Wildcats. I find little to disagree with here.
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Derek Willis receives invitation to the Portsmouth Invitational All-Star Game.
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Still hate Christian Laettner? Well, here’s grist for the mill. Actually, I got a laugh out of it, but Star Wars humor always gets me.
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Colin Cowherd wouldn’t know a legitimate question if it crawled up his leg and kicked him in the boys.
The only legitimate questions regard why Cowherd is allowed to earn money for his risible verbal diarrhea.
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Incoming UK frosh and fellow McDonald’s All-American Quade Green pitches undecided 5-star Mohamed Bomba and Kevin Knox. Bring them home to the Bluegrass, Quade.
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Sigh. Six on five is always tough, but it happens, and not just to Kentucky. It shouldn’t, but it does. Because sports. But pay close attention to the end.
John Higgins Sabotage of Kentucky from cal for the win on Vimeo.
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Aaaannnd then there’s this, in case you missed it above. Some of our fans are just…I have no words.
Kentucky fans found the Facebook page for referee John Higgins' roofing company, and the results are incredible pic.twitter.com/bPQ1kLDk74
— Mike Rutherford (@CardChronicle) March 28, 2017 -
This:
Congrats to my guy for being invited to the NABC All-Star Game in Phoenix this weekend and Portsmouth pre-draft camp in April! #blessings
— k e e l y (@keelypotts_) March 27, 2017
Other Kentucky sports
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Men’s golf moves up the leaderboard at Hootie at Bulls Bay in South Carolina. What a weird tournament name.
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Two Kentucky gymnasts earn All-American honors, a firs for Wildcats gymnastics.
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Hoops stars Makayla Epps and Evelyn Akhator named AP All-American honorable mention.
Links posts
College football
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Interesting:
The FB on this isolation gets 2 LBs with a low version of the now illegal flying cross body block. pic.twitter.com/fxaSDNOm8v
— todd greenwell (@GreenwellTodd) March 28, 2017
College basketball
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What a month for the Gamecocks. Indeed, they’re on a roll.
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Will new IU coach Archie Miller bring back the UK-IU rivalry?
Other sports news
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Tim Tebow, ladies and gentlemen. Respect.