Kentucky must just hate Tobacco Road.
First Christian Laettner gave them a gutting for the ages in 1992, and now...Luke Maye?
Maye has been coming on and is becoming a good player, but is that the guy anyone expected to wreck marriages, cancel wedding and cause schoolyard fights all across the Commonwealth?
Okay, we kid.
Sort of.
It’s as if the Basketball Gods have a 25-year joke: let an ACC team * string UK along until the very last second and then...bam! Cut their still beating hearts out.
We said this Saturday night about this game and we think we were pretty much on the money:
We’re not as certain this time, but we think a reasonable expectation is that UNC’s experience will again be key.