Momentum building in Kentucky basketball preseason

Kentucky basketball is picking up speed almost by the day now during this preseason. It started last Friday with a Big Blue Madness on a super modern lighted floor at Rupp Arena. Later in that same event, a force of nature who led Kentucky to the 1996 NCAA championship was introduced to a huge crowd at Rupp Arena that was thrilled and enchanted that he was there.

Rick Pitino called it deeply emotional emotional, after he carried the NCAA championship trophy, and stood beside Mark Pope with a microphone in his hand to speak to the adoring crowd. He appeared to fight back tears when he spoke in Rupp Arena on Friday night, in a scene still surreal several days later.