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C am ped out in front o f Rupp
A rena five hours before the na
tional cham pion K entucky W ild
cats w ere to arrive for a pep rally,
10-year-old Justin Puffer got a les
son in supply and dem and.
Tickets for the event com m em o
rating K entucky’s 78-69 NCAA
tournam ent title gam e victory over
U tah w ere gone w ithin m inutes af
ter the sales w indow opened Tues-
day m orning. But Justin and his
m other w ere determ ined to find a
generous scalper w illing to m ake a
sale.
T he only problem w as that Mom
had established a price cap.
“ F ifte e n d o lla rs , J u s tin , no
m ore,” Lois Puffer told her son.
A nd that o ffer ju st w a sn ’t g e t
ting m any bites considering other
W ildcats fans, like Dan M ahoney,
w ere openly offering $50.
“ I figure that if I stand out here
and try to look cute, som ebody will
ju st give them to m e,” M ahoney
joked.
But after tw o hours o f w aiting,
neither M ahoney’s m onetary offer
nor his charm paid off.
T h e 2 0 ,0 0 0 fa n s f o r tu n a te
enough to get tickets som ehow
found a w ay to scream louder as
the pep rally progressed, even with
strained vocal chords. A t 7:06 p.m.
EST, the team bus drove to the
edge o f the Rupp A rena floor, and
out ju m p ed the national cham pi
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ons - the ‘C om eback C ats’ as sev
eral posters proclaim ed.
The crow d erupted with the an
nouncem ent o f each team mem ber,
w ith the loudest cheers o f all for
first-year coach Tubby Smith.
“T he love affair you all have for
K entucky basketball and this pro
g ra m is
u n b e lie v
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g
d ro w n ed
out
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c ro w d
noise.
S e n io r
C am ero n M ills g av e c re d it to
form er coach Rick Pitino, who left
the team at the end o f last season to
accept a coaching jo b with the Bos
ton C eltics, but reserved his high
est praise for Smith.
“ 1 d o n ’t think y o u ’ll ever know
how m uch our relationship m eans
to m e,” M ills said, giving the coach
a hug.
Tournam ent MVP Je ff Sheppard
seem ed to choke up as he spoke
about the influence o f his team
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m ates. And K entucky’s other se
nior, A llen Edw ards, thanked the
fans for supporting him follow ing
the death o f his m other during the
tournam ent.
At the end, the players raised
the cham pionship banner to the
rafters, w here it jo ined those for
six previous
n a tio n a l
titles.
A
t
K een elan d ,
across from
B lue G rass
A irp o rt
w h e re th e
team landed
T uesday
night, an es
tim ated 800
to
1,000
fans showed
u p , m an y
because
they c o u ld n ’t get tickets to the cel
ebration in Rupp Arena.
The players w ent out in the
crow d and signed shirts and new s
papers, w hile Smith was presented
with a cake that read: “Tubby takes
the cake.”
Not everyone was up at the crack
o f dawn to even try for pep rally
tickets. A fter a night o f w ild party
ing downtown, Doris Cowan wasn ’t
even up at 9 a.m. w hen she was
scheduled to supervise the student
union food court. She show ed
up about an hour later.
“A fter the pep rally tonight,
w e ’re going back into the streets
to party again! W e’re not going
to stop until the ‘Cats d ro p ,”
said Cowan, adm itting that such
a regim en could m ake for an
exhausting offseason.
W ith tw o sea so n s o f p ra c
tic e in controlling w ild crow ds
after national title gam es, L ex
ington police w ere ready to
handle the m ob o f clo se to
15,000 fans w ho celebrated in
the streets. T hree hundred o f
ficers lined dow ntow n L exing
ton in full riot gear, w atching
the chaos with the aid o f spot
lights from a National Guard
helicopter.
Police made 10 arrests and the
UK hospital reported treating 25
people for m inor injuries.
Still, police said the chaos
n e v e r re a c h e d the lev el o f
K entucky’s cham pionship night
two years ago when, among other
things, officers were pelted with
beer bottles and a television news
crew ’s van was overturned.
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