By now you know our feelings on Kentucky’s uniforms. Like the players, we’re not fans of all that checkerboard, and even though I’ve kind of gotten used to it, my hate for it still flares up from time to time. General consensus is most people don’t like the checkerboard, but one sportswriter does: Sports Illustrated’s Luke Winn, who ranks Kentucky’s white checkerboard unis as his favorite standard home jerseys from a major shoe company this year.
“Although a prolific Twitter brandbot recently called Kentucky’s checkerboards the “worst college jersey Nike makes,” I am of the opposite opinion.