I'm a much bigger fan of college basketball than I am of the NBA. But this year, I tuned in for a sizable chunk of the playoffs. (I'll watch a regular season game as background, but it's not appointment television.)

I'm a graduate of Western Kentucky University, so I'll always have "Go Big Red" echoing through my cerebellum, but I'm also a fan of UK and Louisville hoops, too. Big fans. Murray State? Sure enough. I'm a Kentuckian, and I support.

Obviously, however, it's the Wildcats and the Cardinals that we see in the postseason more often than the rest. It's a frustrating fact of life that the other schools aren't there more often, but it is what it is.

Kentucky Schools and the NBA

Since John Calipari arrived and took over as head coach at UK in 2009, the presence of former Wildcats h

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