When Reid Travis was fouled with 18 seconds left in Kentucky’s tense NCAA Tournament round-of-32 contest with Wofford, the Wildcats’ season hung in the balance on his trip to the foul line.
Up 58-51 with 3:36 left, UK had wobbled down the stretch and seen Wofford erase all but two points from the Wildcats’ lead.
As Travis received the ball at the foul line with the Cats leading 58-56, a “game slipping away” feeling had begun to waft through the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena.
There had been a time in Travis’ college basketball career, that the last thing anyone rooting for his team would have wanted to see was the 6-foot-8, 238-pound post player going to the foul line with an NCAA Tournament game riding on the outcome.