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Davis and gilchrist are in the back because we are going to sneak up and snatch the NCAA championship from the blue devils.GO BIG BLUE

Gilchrist looks like a BEAST in this photo. I still can't get over Davis' unibrow, I guess I'll have to if he is as good as they say he is.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Gilchrist looks like a BEAST in this photo. I still can't get over Davis' unibrow, I guess I'll have to if he is as good as they say he is.

He is, believe me. I don't know if you remember Marcus Camby, when he was at UMass, but this "kid" Davis, is going to be another Camby. He has all the tools.

Is it just me or does Austin Rivers look like the biggest ***** ever?

Originally Posted by aholderfield12

Davis and gilchrist are in the back because we are going to sneak up and snatch the NCAA championship from the blue devils.GO BIG BLUE

I don't think Duke will be in the mix for the NCAA title like Kentucky, North Carolina or Ohio State will be. If the title is won based on pure talent then the Wildcats will win hands down! If won based on experience then Carolina might take it. Ohio State was just manhandled and outplayed by the Wildcats in the Regional semi-finals. The same for Carolina in the Regional finals. So, Kentucky has the advantage there against both. Duke doesn't want anything to do with UK, Carolina or Ohio State come this season!!!! Kentucky will be, by far, the most talented team in the country!!! We will just have to see how they "jell" together as a team! Go Wildcats!!!!!!!!!!Let the Big Blue Thunder roll!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Gilchrist looks like a BEAST in this photo. I still can't get over Davis' unibrow, I guess I'll have to if he is as good as they say he is.

LOL..I've always thought the same thing. Davis needs to shave that in the middle or get waxed hehehe

Originally Posted by tomas

Is it just me or does Austin Rivers look like the biggest ***** ever?

Yup i think so too.

Originally Posted by Larry E. Hardin

I don't think Duke will be in the mix for the NCAA title like Kentucky, North Carolina or Ohio State will be. If the title is won based on pure talent then the Wildcats will win hands down! If won based on experience then Carolina might take it. Ohio State was just manhandled and outplayed by the Wildcats in the Regional semi-finals. The same for Carolina in the Regional finals. So, Kentucky has the advantage there against both. Duke doesn't want anything to do with UK, Carolina or Ohio State come this season!!!! Kentucky will be, by far, the most talented team in the country!!! We will just have to see how they "jell" together as a team! Go Wildcats!!!!!!!!!!Let the Big Blue Thunder roll!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yup i think with Jones returning then we should be just as good as Carolina. If we get Lacey on top of that than i would put us at #1 again.

Originally Posted by littleboyblue

He is, believe me. I don't know if you remember Marcus Camby, when he was at UMass, but this "kid" Davis, is going to be another Camby. He has all the tools.

Camby set a freshman record with a 105 blocks. You think we lead the nation in blocks?

Originally Posted by BigBlueNation502

LOL..I've always thought the same thing. Davis needs to shave that in the middle or get waxed hehehe

Only trouble with that is, it grows back thicker everytime it's shaved. If it's natural, then I can live with it. Afterall, I'm not going to be watching his "unibrow", I'll be observing his hands as he slams the ball through the hoop. LOL

Originally Posted by BlueKnight

Camby set a freshman record with a 105 blocks. You think we lead the nation in blocks?

With this guy? You better believe it.

Originally Posted by littleboyblue

Only trouble with that is, it grows back thicker everytime it's shaved. If it's natural, then I can live with it. Afterall, I'm not going to be watching his "unibrow", I'll be observing his hands as he slams the ball through the hoop. LOL

I know he better get some Gilette refills then, LOL. I'd go with the wax. I'm like you though cause if he plays great then i can look past that.

Originally Posted by aholderfield12

Davis and gilchrist are in the back because we are going to sneak up and snatch the NCAA championship from the blue devils.GO BIG BLUE

I understand your enthusiasm and I'm not trying to be a know it all, but no UK team has ever sneaked up to win a national title. That was said about the 1958 "Fiddlin' Five." Seattle didn't think so though. As Tev Laudeman noted in his book, "The Rupp Years", "The Fiddlin' Five paid their dues."

RECORD: 23-6
COACH: ADOLPH RUPP
ALL-AMERICA: VERNON HATTON (G)
DID YOU KNOW? LED BY HATTON'S 30 POINTS, THE CATS TWICE BATTLED BACK FROM 11-POINT DEFICITS.

THIS IS A STORY about a brash young man who had the misfortune to run into the Old Master of tournament basketball, Adolph Rupp of Kentucky.

The brash young man was John Castellani of Seattle, a fast-talking, sharp-dressing 32-year-old. On the coaching level, it was no contest.

Since 1952-53, when Kentucky was obliged to cancel its schedule because of alleged violations of the NCAA code, Rupp, 56, has had one thought before him—"I will not retire until Kentucky wins another NCAA championship." But at the start of the season, Rupp could hardly have hoped for much more than the 18th Southeastern Conference title, if that.

As he put it, he had a collection of "fiddlers" when he needed "violinists." They were the holdovers of what he had termed possibly his worst team in years. But the clue was in that word holdovers. He had a starting five of four seniors and one junior. All had had three years of the rigorous Rupp discipline that makes, and let it be said, can break basketball players. With hardly a single freelance move, this team ran its patterns, getting better and better as the year wore on and won the SEC title. In the NCAA tournament it simply overpowered Miami of Ohio and actually humiliated Notre Dame by more than 30 points. In the semifinal against Temple it passed and ran until it found the tiniest chinks in one of the toughest defenses in the nation.

Rupp was within one step of the goal, but what a big step it was: The offensive versatility of Seattle's Elgin Baylor was a problem that hadn't been solved by many coaches. There was only one course open: Get rid of Baylor. And that's what Rupp did. He set up fast-moving patterns that forced Seattle into a continuous switching of defensive assignments until Baylor was left guarding John Crigler, easily the most underrated player in the tournament. Before the game was 10 minutes old Baylor had three fouls.

In the second half Castellani put his team into a zone defense, with four men out front, running ferociously to cover five Kentuckians, and Baylor under the basket. But there always had to be a free Kentucky player outside, and whether it was Johnny Cox in a corner or Vernon Hatton near the top of the key, he scored. Baylor still had 25 points, but Kentucky won 84-72. Rupp, a man dedicated to winning as the only reason for playing or coaching, had his fourth national title.

From SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, March 31, 1958

I guess a lot of us are like Coach Rupp and, I might add, Vince Lombardi of the old Green Bay Packers. "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."