July 12th: On this date...

.... in 2003, nearly 20,000 seats were sold in advance to a game that would become a World Record for attendance at a basketball game. The Kentucky-Michigan State tilt would be called "Basketbowl - Hoops on the 50", only because everything nowadays needs a label or catchy jingle. The game would take place at Ford Field, the newly designed home of the Detroit Lions. Officials were hoping to get 75,000 for the game. They got 78,129. The previous World Record for any basketball game was set at Olympic Stadium in Berlin for a Harlem Globetrotters game. The Superdome in New Orleans had held the top 9 spots for most attended college basketball games in history. Oh....Gerald Fitch would score 25 to lead #8 Kentucky to a 79-74 victory over Izzo's Spartans.

Big Blue Booyah on Tom Leach