Here are some articles from the various local newspapers and from the Memory Book published that Summer on the trip to the NCAA tournament in 1982:
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From the Memory Book “All the Way to the NCAA” prepared for Raider fans to preserve a basketball season that never had been equaled at this university:
On Sunday, March 7, the decision makers on the NCAA’s national basketball tourney committee prepared a bracket, which, for all intents and purposes, was to force a “Dream Game” between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Louisville Cardinals, two of the country’s top basketball teams.
As a build up to “The Game,” Kentucky was to dispose of the Ohio Valley Tournament champion, Middle Tennessee.
Even before the Wildcat-Blue Raider game, everyone had latched on to the “Dream Game” hype. The CBS television network, which was broadcasting the extravaganza, prayed this match up that had not come about in 23 years would really materialize. It did not, though, and the CBS crews had to scramble to promo the new “Cinderella Game.”
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