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Win Sweet 16 tickets on Cats' Pause radio show
Participate in The Cats' Pause radio show from 8 to 9 p.m. Monday, March 12, and you could win two lower arena tickets to the first session of the Kentucky Boys State High School Basketball Tournament Wednesday afternoon at Rupp Arena.
You can talk UK sports with WKYT's Dick Gabriel and Cats' Pause general manager Darrell Bird each Monday night at 8 p.m. following the Coach Tubby Smith Show. Click here for a list of stations on network..

Tubby talks about UK's lot in NCAA Tourney
Kentucky coach Tubby Smith said Sunday night that the East Region is the toughest of the four for this year's NCAA Tournament..

BIRD: UK-Duke scenario is tantalizing
Today we have computers that are not only intelligent, they sport a dry and wicked sense of humor. Just check out the UK-Duke collision course offered up by the NCAA Tournament..

Charting path for UK championship
If Kentucky and Duke is destined to happen -- as many believe -- why not throw in a UK-Arizona rematch for the NCAA title?.

Postition-by-position look at UK vs. Holy Cross
Here is a position-by-position look at Kentucky versus Holy Cross. The NCAA East Regional first round game begins at 12:20 p.m. Thursday at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, N.Y..

OSCAR: Now the real season begins
During a year in which no one team singled itself out as unbeatable, the 2001 NCAA Tournament promises to be wide open for at least sixteen teams to claim a national championship by the first week of April..

WEISS: UK fans would never accept Pitino at UofL
Rick Pitino can spin this one six ways from Sunday -- claiming Louisville is a great university and his wife Joanne loves the city. He even says only 15 percent of UK fans will never understand if he goes to Louisville. He obviously hasn’t talked to the ones we know.

Here is the 65-team NCAA bracket
Here is the 65-team NCAA bracket

DAWSON: Pitino at Louisville makes sense
Rick Pitino to Louisville? Why not?

VAUGHT: Goodner to turn Dennis Johnson loose
If new Kentucky defensive coordinator John Goodner has his way, the big plays everyone has been waiting for from Dennis Johnson will become more frequent in 2001.

WIEDMER: UK fans deserve applause, too
Arkansas' magnificent forward Joe Johnson had this to say about UK fans in Nashville for the SEC Tournament: “It seemed like they were the only ones out there. Everywhere you looked was blue.”

UK releases NCAA ticket info
Kentucky has received 450 tickets for the NCAA East Regional games Thursday and Saturday on Long Island, N.Y., but another 2,100 are available through the Nassau Coliseum.


Rick Pitino says 15% of UK fans would be upset if he went to Louisville. What do you think the percentage would be?

0-20 percent
20-40 percent
40-60 percent
60-80 percent
80-100 percent


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