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Anthony Davis hugged his college teammate, hugged his coach, and climbed on stage as the No. 1 pick.
Best in the country and No. 1 and 2 in the NBA draft. The celebration goes on for Kentucky's kids.
Kentucky and North Carolina appear headed for an NBA-first during Thursday night's draft.
Such is life for players such as Clark and Jardine, criss-crossing the country for team workouts in the final weeks before the NBA draft. The Wizards were the third and seventh stop, respectively, for Clark and Jardine, who were joined by Matt Gatens (Iowa), Bernard James (Florida State) and Darius Miller (Kentucky).
Kentucky's starting lineup of three freshmen and two sophomores did most everything together en route to the school's eighth national title. Now, they will each go their separate ways in the NBA.
Another championship banner has been unfurled at Rupp Arena.
The running joke all season was that Kentucky was good enough to beat some NBA teams. Say, maybe the Toronto Raptors.
There's so much more to Kentucky than Anthony Davis.
It's time to bury the term "student-athlete." It died at 11:42 p.m. Monday, just about the time the confetti falling from the roof of the Superdome landed on coach John Calipari's hair and the players from Kentucky's NBA development academy gathered at a far corner of the court to collect a trophy many of them will need a campus map just to find next year.
A day after raucous celebrations led to more than two dozen arrests, police said Sunday that they are ready to control crowds near the University of Kentucky's campus when the Wildcats play Kansas for the national championship.
The pressure is everywhere for Kentucky to win a national title. Except in the locker room.
Losing his starting job hasn't kept Kentucky senior Darius Miller from providing the leadership that has kept the freshman-laden Wildcats on track for a national championship.
The words "trust" and "John Calipari" rarely turn up in the same sentence for a very good reason.
The words "trust" and "John Calipari" rarely turn up in the same sentence for a very good reason.
Kentucky is taking its highlight show back to the Big Easy.
While the other Final Four teams have had added opportunities to stroll Bourbon Street and be tempted by all the Big Easy has to offer, Kentucky only took one trip into the French Quarter on the first night, Miller said.
`Need to win this, have to win this.'
