Greatest team to lace em up. End of discussion.

Of all my biased posts, the blatant favoritism I'll display here could only have been surpassed by a baby boomer telling us how their little soccer playing bastard will be the next Einstein/Pele/Dirk Diggler/Robert Redford.

Today is the anniversary of the greatest team in college basketball history cutting down the nets- The 1996 Kentucky Wildcats. Never had more talent been assembled on one team (9 players would go on to make NBA rosters). Never had a team outscored their opponents more in the tournament (they won by an average of 21 points). Never had a college team scored more points in a single half of basketball (86 points). Some teams played perfect games (UGA) against UK and still lost. In short, the Cats were so FKN good our 2nd team players could have created another top 10 ranked team.

Who could have possibly beat them? UCLA with Walton? Nope. 'Dirty Hippie' Walton may have been the only player from the Bruins that would have earned a varsity letter. How 'bout the undefeated '76 Hoosiers? They had a great starting five but their tread would have worn out with 8 minutes to go? UNLV in the early '90's? This would have been a closer match up, but the Cats defense would not have allowed the Rebels get their usual 50 dunks a game.

Best of all: this team was comprised of Gen Xers. Worst of all: I had graduated and missed the celebration in Lexington. How I partially redeemed myself: I'd moved back to Lexington before UK's 1998 National Championship and was part of this....