[Hoot Gibson]

I will probably watch some good basketball this weekend. Pitino's Iona team is 26-7 and still alive in their conference tournament. I think that I would enjoy seeing a UK vs. Iona match-up this season. If UK is going to lose anyway, they might as well lose to a well-coached team with much less talent.

Calipari has made ignoring UK basketball for the next few days easy.

Cats will probably be a #6, which means Iona would have to be a #11 . I'd say they are most likely a  12-14 seed, most likely a #13 seed. Less than 1% chance of being a #11.  If UK were to somehow secure a #5  then there's an outside chance of getting Iona.  I'm like you , Hoot, I'd love to see Cal and Pitino match wits. Though the game is very unlikely to happen, it probably would be a pretty good game to watch.

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Cal should call a press conference and publicly apologize to every US veteran and their families for his actions in Florida that night taking a knee. Regardless of what anyone thinks this has put the pressure on him more that anyone could imagine to polish his image, losing most of the support of diehards 50 years old or older. Did it taken him 14 years to find a hard working coal miner in the stands to recognize, while rubbing elbows with those who are trying to put that miner out of a job. I worked in the coal mines 18 years and his publicity stunt using a coal miner to polish his image in Southern KY with the diehards didn't work.  The curse of Coach Rupp will continue to follow him until he wins 6 national championships and  Barnhart builds a new arena called Cal-Barn. 10 million dollar man setting in the stands tonight watching less talented teams compete, if you are happy with that you might be a redneck!

Time to get over it.  A very small percentage of 50+ year-olds give a damn about him  taking a knee . You are kidding yorself if you believe that nonsense.  If Cal's team went on to win the national title this year, there would be a big celebration at Rupp when the team returns home. He would be the toast of the Bluegrass . Cal would get a five minute standing ovation like he did in 2012 and you and others, inclding veterans and coal miners,  would be licking his rectum. I can feel your hypocrisy through this computer screen.

Quit smoking the kinnikinnick and join us all here in the real world.  Btw, your buddy Rupp was a racist and a Nazi, a horrible person.

Put that in your peace pipe and smoke it.

Once again, you are wrong. I may no longer live in Kentucky, but I know that the majority of Kentucky's 50+ fans were bothered by UK players taking a knee in a salute to the racist BLM movement and would appreciate a well-deserved apology by Kentucky's mediocre basketball coach. Save your condemnations of racists for Democrat politicians like LBJ, Robert C. Byrd, and Joe Biden. Adolph Rupp was no more, no less of a racist than the liberal Democrats that you continue to support.