On the Sunday after Kentucky won the 2012 NCAA championship, my column proclaimed that UCLA’s record of 11 NCAA men’s basketball championships was now within reach for UK.
I pointed out that over 17 years, thanks to Rick Pitino’s national title in 1996, Tubby Smith’s in 1998 and John Calipari’s in 2012, Kentucky had narrowed UCLA’s edge from 11-5 to 11-8.
“If UK could repeat the same ratio, beating UCLA by three championships over the next 17 years, it would tie the Bruins in 2029,” I wrote.
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