The Kentucky Wildcats have played in 17 men’s NCAA Tournament Final Fours and won eight national championships.
Yet as Luke Maye’s Sunday buzzer beater that sent North Carolina to the Final Four and ended Kentucky’s season reminded us, UK and its fans have endured a heaping share of March Madness heartbreak, too.
With Sunday’s 75-73 loss to North Carolina, UK has now lost more round-of-eight games (18) than it has won (17). Many of the most painful defeats in Kentucky basketball history have come in regional finals.
Here are the 10 Kentucky defeats in the Elite Eight that stung the most:
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