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Thursday Headlines: 1995-96 Kentucky Basketball Team Honored

Related Topics: Rick Pitino, Kentucky, Rick Majerus

Over at ESPN, writer John Gasaway is spending college football season writing about the most dominant men’s NCAA Tournament runs, and one team making the list was no surprise...

The 1995-96 Kentucky Wildcats.

The ‘96 team is tied for 5th in the rankings, and here’s what Gasaway had to say about that Kentucky team.

True, UK’s record-setting modern-era margin of victory (129 points across six games) was helped along by a 110-72 win over a No. 16 seed. So be it. Rick Pitino’s men posted a similar 101-70 victory over no less an opponent than Rick Majerus and Utah.