From Brian Rickerd of the State-Journal: “I’ve been blessed to cover University of Kentucky men’s basketball in three national championship games and blessed that the Wildcats are 3-0 in those games. The other two were in 1996 and ‘98. If you’re superstitious at all – I’m generally not – you may be sorry to note that I did not cover Kentucky in the 1997 final, an overtime loss to Arizona. But Monday night’s, 67-59, championship game win…