It feels like Big Blue Nation is on edge heading into the NCAA Tournament. Here is some optimism: St. Louis has been very kind to Kentucky Basketball. The Cats are 13-4 in the Gateway City, 7-1 in NCAA Tournament games. Heck, Kentucky has even won a title there, Goose Givens scoring 41 points vs. Duke to lead the Cats to the 1978 national championship in the Checkerdome.
Kentucky hasn’t lost in St. Louis this century. Take out the loss to Michigan State in the 1999 Elite Eight, and it’s been 62 years since the Cats’ last defeat there, to the St.