The 2014 NCAA Tournament game between Wichita State and Kentucky makes any short list of great games.
It might lead the list for games contested during the first weekend. Kentucky’s 78-76 win in St. Louis featured eight future NBA players, a high-level exchange of big shots and seeding controversy.
The revenge factor is irresistible as an emotional peg for Sunday’s rematch in the second round of the South Regional, even if the main combatants are elsewhere.
Junior Shaq Morris, one of three Shockers on the current roster who was on the bench for that game, said Saturday he heard from former teammates Fred VanVleet and Cleanthony Early after a WSU-UK rematch became a reality.