Adam Himmelsbach of the Courier Journal spoke with ESPN’s Jay Bilas in his column “Adam Asks” and he asked him a ton of questions in an one on one interview.
One of the more interesting answers from the interview was the following:
Do you have a good story about interacting with Louisville or Kentucky fans?
I don’t know if you know this, but my niece and nephew are UK graduates. My nephew was student-body president last year, and my brother lives in Louisville.
In 2010, I had picked Cornell to go to the Sweet 16, and the way our ESPN selection show was set up, they were going to show our picks, but just from the Elite 8 on. But I thought ‘Well, no one’s really going to know how good I think Cornell is.’ So I thought ‘To hell with it, I’ll just put them in the Elite 8.’ I didn’t really think about that this meant Kentucky was going out in the Sweet 16. As soon as that happened, I became Public Enemy No. 1.
Somehow my cellphone number got on a Kentucky message board or something, and I started getting phone calls like you wouldn’t believe. And they weren’t calling to say ‘Hey, I really like you.’ I couldn’t even use my voicemail.
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