Louisville followers are getting inventive of their trolling of basketball-rival Kentucky.
The No. 3 seeded Wildcats have been knocked out within the first spherical of the NCAA Males’s Basketball Event on Thursday by Eleventh-seeded Oakland in an 80-76 upset.
Whereas Kentucky followers mourned their probability at a ninth nationwide championship, Cardinal followers took to the Oakland web site to buy t-shirts of their new favourite group — $8,000 price of them! And Golden Grizzlies head coach Greg Kampe believes they may have even contributed to the varsity’s website crashing on Thursday evening.
“Our college web site crashed final evening … We additionally offered $8,000 price of t-shirts to Louisville,” Kampe mentioned.
The coach, who’s in his fortieth season on the helm of Oakland’s males’s basketball program, regarded flabbergasted talking to the media concerning the purchases.
“Sincere to God, you realize, they purchase the t-shirts and so they put the bank card in … Louisville, Louisville, Louisville …. [it] wasn’t the identical particular person,” Kampe continued.
Cardinal followers didn’t have a lot to cheer about firstly of the event as their squad missed out following a disastrous 8-24 marketing campaign that led to the firing of head coach Kenny Payne.
Watching Kentucky go down within the first spherical possible eased a few of that ache, and prompted followers to focus their power on subsequent season’s rivalry, which is the place coach Kampe thinks the t-shirts will make an look.
“I do not know subsequent yr, when Lousiville and Kentucky play … I do not know if everyone’s going to indicate up in an Oakland shirt or what. I do not know. However, it is loopy to consider what one thing like this does,” Kampe mentioned.
Louisville and Kentucky have met six occasions within the NCAA Event with the Wildcats taking all 4 of the six victories. The latest event matchup was within the 2014 Candy Sixteen (Kentucky 74, Louisville 69).
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