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Rick Pitino part of outrageous message that athletes can do whatever they want as long as they win

How has Rick Pitino overcome incredible failure, personal humiliation and general personality shortcomings to become the sage of college basketball?

Rick Pitino - photo by Al Behrman | AP

– photo by Al Behrman | AP

Rick Pitino and his Cardinals are in the Elite Eight so you knew it was only a matter of time when the subject of would come up again.  From Greg Couch of .com:  “After Woods moved back to No. 1 in the world rankings this week, Nike claimed its ad wasn't even talking about Tiger's personal problems. In other words: Nike either lied or missed the obvious.

I'm going with lied.

While I never thought it was any of our business who Woods hooked up with, plenty of people felt that it wasn't right to say that winning golf tournaments could wipe away all he had done behind the back of his ex-wife Elin Nordegren.

It was sending the outrageous message to athletes that they can do whatever they want as long as they win.

Outrageous.

Pitino cheated on his wife, too, and then was so angry at the coverage of it in August 2009 that he called a press conference to chastise the media for not considering that his wife was going through a hard time because the other woman was blackmailing him.

Yes, it was the blackmail that led to Pitino's wife's hardships, not Pitino's actions.”

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On This Day In UK Basketball History

On March 28, 1992, in what many called the “best NCAA Tournament game ever,” Kentucky takes defending NCAA champion Duke into overtime before losing 104-103 in the East Regional finals in Philadelphia. A last-second shot by Christian Laettner sends Duke to the Final Four, and breaks the hearts of Wildcat fans everywhere. It is Cawood Ledford’s last game as the “Voice of the Wildcats.”

 

On March 28, 1998, against Stanford, Kentucky rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit, then grabbed a 5-point overtime lead, before fending off the Cardinals to advance to the title game for the third straight season. Jeff Sheppard canned three long-range three-pointers - two in the final three minutes and one in overtime - en route to a career-high 27 points.

 

On March 28, 2014, unranked Kentucky beat No. 5 Louisville 74-69, in the 2014 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.  Aaron Harrison buried a three-pointer from the left corner with 39 seconds left that put UK ahead to stay before 41,072 in Lucas Oil Stadium.

 

On March 28, 2015, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 8 Notre Dame, 68-66, in the 2015 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.  With its 37-0 record on the line, Kentucky trailed Notre Dame 59-53 with 6:14 left. UK rallied in front of 19,464 fans in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena and preserved its perfect season thanks to a crucial blocked shot by Willie Cauley-Stein and two game-deciding free throws from Andrew Harrison in the final seconds.

 

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