With the Kentucky game coming Tuesday night, Duke fan and Kentucky native Pete Stavros sent us this to give us an idea of what it's like for Duke fans in the Commonwealth.
Growing up in Eastern Kentucky, I was, like most everyone else in my small hometown, a diehard University of Kentucky basketball fan. As the saying went, I bled blue – Big Blue. I always wore some kind of UK t-shirt or sweatshirt or ball cap. I kept stats on the players, practiced my ball handling skills in the backyard imagining I was Goose Givens, and clung to every staticky word of play-by-play from legendary Kentucky radio announcer Cawood Ledford.