By Matthew Klein
The 1 seeded Kentucky Wildcats who had the most talent out of all the teams in the tournament are going home. West Virginia beat them Saturday night 73-66 to advance to their first final four since 1959. Kentucky, who has four players who will all be going top 15 in the draft this year certainly didn't play like they were. The Wildcats all year have struggled from three, but tonight was really bad they missed their first 20 attempts and finished going only 4-32 which is only 12.5%. "We've had games where we missed free throws and three pointers, but our defense, we gave up a lot of layups and they just outplayed us" Cousins said after the game at the press conference.
West Virginia, on the other hand relied on the three ball all night. In the first half, they scored eight threes and did not get a single two pointer. Joe Mazzula, the injury replacement came up huge scoring 17 points in his first start of the season. Da'Sean Butler, who has been carrying this team all year long led the team with 18 points. West Virginia will face the winner of Duke and Baylor in the Final Four next week. "I talked about it being special, two more and it will be really special" coach Bob Huggins said after the game.
So, as Mountaineer fans celebrate all the way to Indianapolis, Wildcat nation is going to think about what went wrong and just hope that either Wall or Cousins decide to stay but don't count on it.
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