As March of 2020 continues without Madness, KSR will be revisiting Kentucky’s best NCAA Tournament moments. On what was set to be the opening day of the 2020 NCAA Tournament, we turn back the clocks to opening day of the 2011 NCAA Tournament, aka one of my favorite days to ever grace planet Earth.
John Calipari’s second season did not feature the same fireworks as the first. Brandon Knight, Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb were an exceptional freshman triumvirate in almost any season, except following in the immediate footsteps of John Wall, Eric Bledsoe and DeMarcus Cousins.