[Wildcatk23]

I think it was Bogans that got hurt on one of Tubby's best teams that cost them a shot at a title. Also, with college basketball as down as it is right now, if UK had Enes they might win it all. You gotta play with the hand that life deals you. I wish D.A. wasn't hurt for that game, because Rick might have got that other title, but he didn't.

Lookie what i found lol.

For the purpose of this discussion I am attributing that loss to Arizona to the one factor that almost everyone in college basketball agreed on that year. If Derek Anderson does not get hurt and tear his ACL, the Cats are once again National Champions. And that my friends, triggers an entirely new reality, one where the world of the Kentucky Wildcats is completely different.


The Kentucky Wildcats with Derek Anderson run the table in the NCAA tournament. The game with Arizona is not even close and UK is once again crowned with it's 7th National Championship.
The teams are scrambling like crazy to get a piece of Rick Pitino, however C.M. Newton, seeing another UK dynasty in the making, makes Pitino the offer to become the highest paid coach in all of basketball, both College and Professional to stay at UK. Pitino accepts, and the Wildcats go on to win again in 1998. Pitino starts a recruiting run that gets him the very best players in the history of the program over the next 12 years, and he accomplishes much, including 3 more National Championships and a string of 15 straight SEC titles. Kentucky becomes the first team to 2000 wins in 2008, Pitino can boast of no less than 26 players in the NBA at one time, and is considered to be the greatest college basketball coach of all time. Kentucky becomes the elite of the elite in College Basketball having been in the final four an amazing 12 out of 14 years between 1996 and 2010. With Pitino's last National Championship coming in 2007, he is primed for another run in 2010.

http://www.wildcatbluenation.com/2010/12...at-if.html