Tickets for Big Blue Madness will be available this coming Saturday. Fans will begin lining up on Wednesday. 23,000 tickets to view a "practice" that begins at 9pm on Oct 12th and will be gobbled up in a few short hours.
Meanwhile...Kentucky has been named the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week, as selected by the Football Writers Association of America, following Saturday’s 42-29 victory at Arkansas. Jason Leger and Wesley Woodyard have earned SEC Honors.
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r u gonna go?
Nope...I like to think I have more of a life than to go wait for tickets...although I really don't.
is the guy jumping out of the cake going to do a wildcat striptease??
Nope - that is Bill Keightly himself. Affectionately known as “Mr. Wildcat,” Bill Keightley has been associated with the Wildcats’ basketball program since 1962.
Keightley, who mans the “Bill Keightley Equipment Room” in Memorial Coliseum, is as much a fixture around UK basketball as the seven national championship trophies on display in the Coliseum.
Now in his 44th season on the UK sidelines, the Wildcats’ record over the past four decades with Keightley as equipment manager is 1,023-307.
During his tenure, he has served under five UK head coaches — Adolph Rupp, Joe B. Hall, Eddie Sutton, Rick Pitino and Orlando “Tubby” Smith.
In 1997, UK honored Keightley with a retired jersey in his honor. He joins veteran broadcaster Cawood Ledford as the only non-player or coach to have a jersey retired at UK.
Keightley, 77, graduated from Kavanaugh High School in Lawrenceburg and is a retired U.S. Postal Service carrier and veteran of the Marine Corps in WWII.
The avid Cincinnati Reds fan is married to the former Hazel Robinson of Lawrenceburg. The Keightleys have one daughter, Karen, who works in the University’s veterinary science department.
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