Tomorrow night, Kentucky wall take on Duke in a primetime battle of the sport’s bluest bloods. It will be the 21st meeting between the two programs, a rivalry steeped in classic moments, the most famous of which we’re forced to relive every March. “The Shot” has been called the greatest moment in college basketball, but none of the players who will take the floor tomorrow were alive when it happened. Not even Miles Mason Marshall Plumlee, who is approximately 400 years old.
Imagining a world without “The Shot” is like imagining Oscar Combs with a British accent; it’s unfathomable.