Denzel Aberdeen called Kentucky’s home-crowd boos “quite understandable” after the Gonzaga loss. Now the Wildcats have to prove they heard the message.
You don’t see it often: a pro-Kentucky crowd in a neutral arena flat-out booing Kentucky basketball.
But that’s exactly what happened in Nashville.
Down 19–2, with the offense stuck in concrete and Gonzaga clowning them in transition, the boos started. By halftime, with Kentucky trailing 43–20, the sound inside Bridgestone was unmistakable and honestly, unavoidable.
After the game, Mark Pope didn’t run from it.