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Thursday / March 28.
  • John Calipari asked his team, ‘How many of you know what state Boise is in?’

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    After winning the SEC Tournament earlier Sunday, John Calipari doesn’t seem thrilled with his Kentucky Wildcats being sent to Boise, Idaho for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.

    “They can’t steal my joy so we’re going to Boise,” Calipari cracked on ESPN. “And I had to ask my guys, ‘How many of you know what state Boise is in?'”

    Calipari joked that it was going to take six hours to fly to Boise, before Rece Davis corrected him to say it was a four-hour flight.

    No. 5 Kentucky (24-10) will face No. 12 Davidson (25-11, the Atlantic 10 Conference champion, in an all-Wildcats matchup at 7:10 ET on Thursday, with the winner potentially to face another set of Wildcats in Deandre Ayton and No. 4 Arizona, which meets No. 13 Buffalo in the second game Thursday night.

    Whoever wins a potential Kentucky-Arizona matchup in the second round in the South Region could meet No. 1 overall seed Virginia in the Sweet 16. The Cavaliers won the ACC regular-season and Tournament crowns.

    Calipari said he was driving when the bracket came out, and he received a ton of texts, all saying the same thing about Kentucky’s draw.

    “I didn’t know there were so many ways to say, ‘You got screwed again,'” he said with a smile.

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    Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle. A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

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