Saturday Quickies: Checkerboard Lives On Edition

For some reason, there were some Kentucky fans who had a false hope that the Wildcats would not continue with the checkerboard uniforms this year.

That hope was destroyed yesterday when the program posted some photos of players in uniform on their Instagram story.

The photos on Kentucky basketball’s Instagram story that I guess indicate that the checkerboard jerseys will be back next year: pic.twitter.com/a0KHHf0P2K

— Jeremy Chisenhall (@JSChisenhall) July 21, 2018 Perhaps the fact that Tennessee got rid of the checkerboard on its football jerseys raised some hope? I’m not sure. But Kentucky athletics director Mitch Barnhart had addressed this before and made it clear that he and the staff…