Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Let's Talk KY Basketball

For those of you who don't know, Kev and I are HUGE UK Basketball fans.
We love love love Coach Cal and his cats!
And unless you have been living under a rock, you know that they UK Wildcats are kind of a big deal this year in college basketball.
(like we are almost every year)
Ahem, Ahem.....7 national championships on our mission for number 8.
What? What?

UK just happened to be the overall #1 seed in the NCAA tourney this year and those games just happened to be played an hour away from Lexington.

Insert the YUM center located in Louisville, KY.

Kev surprised us with tickets to the 3rd round NCAA games to cheer on our wildcats.
We were stoked!
I may have been hoping for a UCONN re-match (they did knock us out in the final four last year), but we settled for Iowa state).
He booked us a free room via his Mariott points that was literally directly across from the arena.
Major perk!
We would then spend our St. Patrick's Day weekend in nothing other than KY BLUE!!

We dropped the doggies off at their pet hotel and headed up I-64 to the ville.
I had my game face on.
Catching Kevin Rex off guard.


We threw on some more blue for pre-gaming with some friends.



 And you know I be rocking my boots


We met up with our friends Ron and Erin for some Mexican and St. Patty's Day brewskis



Goggle eyes....Holla!
That's what Ky players do when we shove a 3ball in your face :-)



The YUM center was amazing.
Literally it felt like we were playing in Rupp Arena.
The crowd was electrifying and there were seas of blue everywhere you looked.
90 percent or more of the crowd were fans of the big blue nation that came to cheer on their cats in full force.
It was soooooo much fun.



We kicked some Iowa state booty and are moving on to the sweet 16 for a bitter match up with Indiana.
They are the only other team besides Vandy to beat us this season.
We are out for REVENGE.
Kev and I have been so tempted to drive to Atlanta Catlanta this weekend for another taste of March Madness.

It was mine and Kev's first NCAA tourney and it was so special because of the atmosphere.
It was basically a home UK home game on steroids.
It was so neat to see the streets of Louisville, an arch nemesis, filled with blue.
Everywhere you looked there were KY fans jacked up for the game.
It was nutso!
We are so proud of our team this season and we love that they have our city on fire for them.
Us Kentucky fans are pretty passionate about our basketball and we feel like this is our year to hang another banner in Rupp.
Fingers crossed.
If you don't have a team or your team got beat out already, cheer on our wildcats.
I promise they are super fun and exciting to watch.
:-)


Needless to say, it was a fabulous St. Catrick's Day Patrick's Day weekend.



11 comments:

Unknown said...

how fun!! I would love to be around the craziness of March Madness!!

Girl - check out The Kentucky Priss; she is DIE. HARD. KY fan =)

Eesh said...

Looks like you guys had an awesome time!

Whitney doll, you are gorgeous!

xx

Beth said...

sounds like such a fun time. i wish USC had some cuter clothes for girls like you UK girls get. :( and this just makes me want to get to Louisville again STAT.

CALLIE said...

O my gosh!!! So freakin' fun!! I'm a MS Stater so we don't ever make it far enough to do all these cool things haha!

Pamela said...

Howwww fun!! :)

Jodie said...

What a blast!!! I'm a Duke fan, but let's just say on my bracket I have Kentucky winning it all!! *crosses fingers* :)

Sarah said...

Wait, you guys are UK fans?? What?!? ;)

I'm so glad you guys had a great time! It looks like so much fun and if I were you, I'd definitely drive to hotlanta for some more madness!

J and A said...

How fun! you guys do such fun stuff! :) And you always look great doing it! :)

The Mrs. said...

Oh geez! Yall are having some FUN! I saw that you went to Pawn Stars... We just got back from Vegas and it was on our bucket list! Great minds think alike!

jes @ twosmuppies said...

love the shirt and great pictures!!!
xx jes, newest follower
www.twosmuppies.com

Kate said...

You are so freaking cute, I can't stand it! And I really feel like Kevin's personality is shining through more and more. In other words, I'm not scared of him anymore. He's seems so fun and chill - love it and love you too together!!!!!!!






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