April 2nd: On this date...

…in 1996, your University of Kentucky Wildcats, also known as “The Best Team in the History of the World-ables", returned to Lexington and Rupp Arena to hang banner #6 to a packed house. Residents of Lexington were forced to come down from trees and light poles to welcome their beloved team back home. Following a police escort, the Untouchables drove into Rupp in a motor coach. Mark Pope was first off the bus carrying the NCAA trophy. The nearly perfect season ended without a hitch as the players walked to one end of the arena at the end of the ceremony to hoist the banner forever into Rupp's rafters. If you'd like to relive this magical run, check out the recap from Sports Illustrated's vault. Enjoy. Once the ceremony ended, most of the Big Blue faithful returned to the trees and light poles they had come down from a few hours earlier. To this day, you can still see a few 30-year old(ish) tree huggers living quietly atop the streets on campus.

Big Blue Booyah on Tom Leach