Nine years ago, the 2011-12 Kentucky team began its march to the program’s eighth NCAA Championship, led by freak-of-nature freshman Anthony Davis. Watching from home in Waterford, Michigan, a nine-year-old Isaiah Jackson was hooked.
“That’s when I started, I just fell in love with it,” Jackson said of Kentucky Basketball. “I could tell [that] here, it was a winning culture. I just fell in love with them ever since. I forgot what grade I was in, but ever since then, I was just in love with Kentucky.”
Jackson’s love for the Cats was reflected in his childhood bedroom, which included a Kentucky Basketball mini-hoop on his door, a large collections of UK shirts, and a giant sticker of a player dunking on his wall, which he decorated to look like him in a Kentucky No.