Wildcats

While not really loving or hating them, one way or the other, I spent the entire basketball season assuming Kentucky was just some factory-made machine of robotic freak athletes who were probably dicks and coached by History's Greatest Monster. Then last week I stumbled onto this article about Karl-Anthony Towns and was blown away, omg, this is the greatest kid in the world. And just now I saw Jay Bilas on Charlie Rose in the day before this past weekend's Final Four paraphrasing what he said a month ago about Kentucky's selfless players:

Bilas saluted UK players for sacrificing playing time, the chance at eye-catching statistics and places in the starting lineup this season. Yet, he noted a "narrative" that questions whether Kentucky's reliance on so-called one-and-done players is good for the sport.

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"If we really believe it's virtuous to sacrifice for the good of the team ... what have these guys done that's been anything but what we claim to love about college sports?" Bilas said on an ESPN teleconference. "The answer is nothing."

Bilas took it a step further by saying the same kind of sacrifice by players in another program would be applauded.

"If they were wearing different uniforms, they would be celebrated for these things," Bilas said. "You kind of what to wonder . . . when we say we want something, then why aren't we accepting it because we're getting it from Kentucky. We don't seem to want it from them. We seem to want it from someone else."

Like everybody else, I was wrong all season long.

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