A seasonably chilly winter night in mid-March was quickly made warm when 8 national championships, some of the best amateur basketball players in America, and the ever-thirsty ESPN conglomerate descended on Moon Township, Pennsylvania. And what brought the University of Kentucky and their bluegrass power to lowly Robert Morris University in March? Weren't the Wildcats supposed to be gearing up to defend their 2012 NCAA title in some major U.S. city? Not hardly...as a matter of fact, they didn't even qualify for the Men's Championship tournament. UK's lackluster season left them only able to compete for the National Invitational Tournament; a sort of you're-good-but-not-good-enough type of event. Even more strange was that the mighty Wildcats were playing at RMU. Usually in the NIT, the higher seeded team hosts the lower seeded team at their facility. But Rupp Arena (home of the Kentucky Wildcats) was ironically hosting the second round of the NCAA Men's tournament. So, with all of their history and tradition and legacy of winning; about 20 or so young and middle-aged men left the "real" tournament to go take on a bunch of no names in some less-than-hick-town school. However, someone forgot to tell the Colonials to be intimidated.
