Cleveland's Veteran Guard Recalls His Weird, Wild Tourney Run with the Wildcats
Ohio State basketball fans – this one might hurt just a little bit.
Veteran Cavaliers guard Brandon Knight – acquired by Cleveland in a three-team deal at the Deadline – made his bones beating the Buckeyes in 2011 as he willed his Kentucky Wildcats to the Final Four back in 2011. And, with college hoops raging across the nation, Knight tips off Cavs.com’s Tournament Tales this spring.
One year after John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins’ 35-3 Kentucky team fizzled out, Knight’s Wildcats were looking to right that wrong and win the school’s first National Championship since 1998 – entering the Tourney as a 4-seed in a bracket that included North Carolina, Syracuse, West Virginia and that year’s No.