March 4th: On this date....

..... in 2009, is a very memorable day to me, because it was the last time Billy Clyde Gillispie ever step foot in Rupp Arena as the head coach of my beloved Kentucky Wildcats. What happened you ask? He lost to possibly the worst SEC squad that had come in there in a long time, the 2-13 Georgia Bulldogs, led by head coach Pete Hermann! Obviously the best experience of his life. The team was reeling already and with the loss, needed to win an SEC Tournament that nobody went to and get an NCAA bid. Michael Porter had the game of his life going 5-8 from deep and finishing with 15 points to keep it close, but Georgia's Terrance Woodbury dropped 30 points to send poor Jared Carter packing on Senior Night. It would also be the last game for a multitude of players that Big Blue Nation had seemed to actually have a close connection. We hated Billy, they hated Billy, and Jeannine hated Billy. After the Billy Gillispie/Jeannine Edwards confrontation in Oxford, Kentucky would go 6-10 to finish out the year after starting the season 16-4. It did lead to the always rumored Memorial Coliseum game, which was a very raucous event for the first round of the NIT versus UNLV. Fans actually stood, banged their hands together, while noises came from their mouth. It was highlighted by the Coz's posterization of some poor dude.

Big Blue Booyah on Tom Leach