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LOOK and Download: Kentucky Basketball Posters Unveiled

Big Blue Nation can officially celebrate the upcoming season by picking up a UK men’s basketball poster at Kroger locations statewide

basketball is back and members of the Big Blue Nation can officially celebrate the upcoming season by picking up a men's basketball poster at Kroger locations statewide starting Saturday at 8 a.m. ET.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic causing the partial closure of UK Athletics Administration offices, Kroger locations are the only distribution sources for posters at this time. Supply will be limited.

The 2020 posters feature a #TeamKentucky theme centered around the idea, clearer now more than ever during the pandemic, that as the teams representing the Commonwealth, we share in the motto, “we are all in this together.”

Both the UK men's and women's basketball posters feature photos of the entire 2020-21 rosters around a reclaimed wood cutout of the state of Kentucky. The poster themes evoke visuals of Kentucky coming together in a trying time.

LIST OF ALL KROGER LOCATIONS DISTRIBUTING POSTERS (PDF)

Download a full-sized copy of the poster.

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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