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LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky fans can fill their insatiable appetite for UK men’s basketball postseason basketball action with a pre-tournament television special, “Destination: Houston – Wildcats in the NCAA,” that will air across the state of Kentucky on Wednesday and Thursday and on UKathletics.com.

“Destination: Houston,” presented by UK Healthcare, will be a one-hour look at the 26-8 Wildcats as they try to build off another incredible season that featured a share of the Southeastern Conference regular-season championship and the SEC Tournament title.  Read more... (290 words, 1 image, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

The jury’s still out on the soundtrack with this video, but here’s a look at the Stony Brook Seawolves:

Here is some data regarding ticket demand to Kentucky’s session in the NCAA Tournament in Des Moines from www.TiqIQ.com .

MAR. 15, 2016 – The odds-makers at https://www.SportsBettingDime.com, think it’s more likely that Charles Barkley (8/1) correctly predicts college basketball’s National Champion than President Obama (9/1).  And, based upon the President’s previous brackets, the odd-makers lay even odds (1/1) that the “first fan” picks a #1 seed as his champion and an over/under of 6 first round upsets.  When it comes to TV’s other enthusiastic analyst, the odds-makers expect “Send it In” (o/u 8.5) and “The Kiss” (o/u 8) to be Bill Raftery’s most common expressions.  Read more... (652 words, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

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By LARRY VAUGHT

Louisville coach Rick Pitino went on ESPN Radio this morning on the Mike (Greenberg) and Mike (Golic) Show to talk about a variety of things. Obviously, the sex scandal at Louisville was the big topic of conversation.

However, the hosts also asked him about Kentucky coach John Calipari complaining about the seedings. Pitino said that was just Calipari being Calipari.

“He tries to make the world being against him. He does the same thing that John Thompson did at Georgetown — the world’s against us. Wherever he’s going, he’ll probably stay 30 miles outside of town because the hotel’s not good enough. Nothing’s ever good enough, the world’s against us,” Pitino said.  Read more... (285 words, 1 image, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)

By KEITH PEEL

Instead of everyone complaining to the NCAA Tournament selection committee and selection chairman — by the way I give Mitch Barnhart kudos for writing an open letter to the committee — I believe the true driver behind this poor process is CBS-TV.

Since CBS is paying multiple millions of dollars for the broadcast rights each year they are looking for a return on their investment. In order to attract viewers ( and advertisers) to this annual event they must have marquee matchups and the selection committee is just the group to provide them. They are just the “errand boy” for the network.  Read more... (341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

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By RICHARD CHEEKS

The regular season is complete, 23-8, 13-5 in the SEC with a co-championship of the SEC. The Cats had to share this championship with Texas A&M primarily due to the two vagaries of the game. First, the schedule maker had Texas A&M and the Cats only meeting once, in College Station, and then the SEC referees slapped Isaac Humphries with an unnecessary technical foul that snatched a championship clinching road victory from the Cats and forced the co-championship upon them. Then, the Cats rolled through the SEC Tournament to face these same Aggies in the Championship game, winning this time on the neutral court and demonstrating their overall superiority.  Read more... (698 words, 1 image, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)