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Big Blue backlash: UK basketball players knew kneeling would draw criticism

You thought the biggest controversy of the Kentucky men's basketball team's season was going to be that 1-6 start? Think again.

The Wildcats were more than 500 miles from the Bluegrass State when they knelt during the national anthem Saturday at Florida, but fans and others back home noticed.

A sheriff and jailer burned their UK shirts in protest. One county's leaders passed a resolution calling for taxpayer money to stop flowing to the university. And one of the highest-ranking Kentucky legislators cried on the Senate floor, saying that the players' action was a disrespectful gesture to military members such as his son.