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I was at a popular nightlife establishment in Lexington last night, enjoying a fresh brew with good company, when Sportscenter aired its Top 10 plays from Saturday. Just as play No. 10 came on the screen, EVERYONE in the place turned towards one of the televisions to see where Darius’s dunk would rank on the list. With each non-Darius play, there was a sense of excitement knowing it would be at the top. When No. 2 was a pair of buzzer-beaters, everyone cheered assuming Darius Miller made the play of the day.
Wrong.
No. 1 was a buzzer-beater from Division 2 and Darius’s dunk was snubbed from the top 10 plays. That’s bulls—. I would’ve even put that dunk on the top 10 if Chane Behanan had done it. It was nasty and deserving of a spot. Come on, ESPN. You’re better than that.
At least Eric Bledsoe made an appearance:
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February 19th, 2012 at 2:27 pm
Chane Behannon can dunk?
February 19th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
Oh yeah, first batches!
February 19th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Horse-racing was a complete joke and there were two hockeys play, along with a 6’9 dude doing a weak 360 on an 8′ goal. Wtf..ESPN needs to get off Blake’s “Dunk of the Night” cuz Bledsoe made the play and the dunk was nothing special. #FreeDarius
February 19th, 2012 at 2:31 pm
2. Bahahaha. You fail and deserve to for trying that first crap
February 19th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
total BS. at least E Bled got a little love.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
It was #2
February 19th, 2012 at 2:33 pm
miller’s dunk was #2 on hilite reel i watched this morning on espnu
February 19th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Man, I totally agree. Show Dmill in intro to show, then snub top 10 play of night. ESPN is biased against UK. I don’t care what anyone says. They won’t give Cats any recognition to what there doing this year. They are definitely Pro-Syracuse!!!
February 19th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Darius will have his 2nd Dunk of year and can’t even make Top 10. Oh well…CATS gonna keep posterin’ fools like MKG did to ol’ buddy at the Portland as long as they keep jumpin and want to make SC.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
I bet if Ole miss did that AGAINST UK it would have been number 1.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
I have noticed more and more of ESPN snubbing UK. If Syracuse or NC were #1 its all we would hear about. God forbid Duke was #1 we would never hear the end of it from ESPN. But on College Game Day last night they showed 30 seconds of UK highlighs and then debated for 5 minutes on UCON sucking. I dont get how they can ignore what UK is doing this year. Davis is so unique and the way Cal is coaching deserves credit. Im not sure who up top of ESPN hates UK and Cal but they suck bad. They purposely ignore UK and i feel bad for our players thay they dont get the credit form ESPN they deserve.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
“That dunk was so ill it made medicine sick.” – SC anchor this AM
February 19th, 2012 at 2:43 pm
They didn’t even feature his dunk on the highlights of the game on last night’s sportscenter. Its like they missed it when they were picking the tape for the highlights
February 19th, 2012 at 2:47 pm
No, ESPN’s not better than that–the Digger Phelps attitude is the prevailing attitude at ESPN. They don’t like UK, and will continue to snub us. What surprises me is that anyone finds it well, surprising.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
best part about it was that he tweeted ‘not on top 10…smh’ … I feel like couple years ago he wouldn’t be hungry enough to expect that let alone say something like that publicly … in any event, it was nasty and I’m still dying to know what he said afterwards
February 19th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Is it just me or is ESPN not giving the Cats, the #1 team in the nation, much coverage whatsoever? Maybe Cal asked them to do it. That or they’re a bunch of haters
February 19th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
It was BS. I said it last night in the late night post. A HORSE RACE that had the Kentucky Derby winner winning an Allowance 60k race was number 10. You will NOT convince me that a horse race that small is more deserving than a dunk that may be in the top 5-10 all time in Rupp. Give me a break. The only one in the top 10 that would have been more deserving was the Blake Griffin dunk, only because Griffin is a freak, crafted from the same mold as Anthony Davis.
F*** you ESPN.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
horse racing is not a sport.
February 19th, 2012 at 2:59 pm
In the immortal words of Chester, “That’s bullcrap!”
February 19th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
We are officially out of things to whine about
February 19th, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Yup espn be hating. Every day uk plays, I make sure to catch the top 10 to see if any made it. Every time I see dunks and I’m thinking that shit weak, seen that 10 times in the uk game. It’s like they expect us to do that stuff so it’s not big surprise and not a top play.
February 19th, 2012 at 3:10 pm
Who care’s that it didn’t make the Top 10 plays. Miller dunked on a guy. Big deal. If everytime dunking on someone made the top 10 plays it would be full of NBA dunks every top 10 plays. Miller dunked on him. Other than that there was nothing else to it. No steal, no fast break, no assist etc… It’s called top 10 plays not the top 10 dunks.
I only lived in KY when I was a little kid and when I was in college. We do have the best fanbase as far as knowledge of our team, the history of our program, support, and so on but if this site and the comment section has taught me one thing it’s we have the biggest insecure, whiniest, fanbase as well. Bob Knight did this, Digger said that, ESPN hates us, damn a bunch of you all sound like a middle school aged girl who’s boyfriend just broke up with her. We’re the best program in college basketball of course people are going to not like us, hate us, take shot’s at us, and want us to lose. That’s part of it. Who care’s what they say or think. F’em
February 19th, 2012 at 3:11 pm
This is not the university of Darius miller’s awesome dunks. Landon alone would have pout tougher Darius yesterday. Just wait till I get me tech team up to par.
February 19th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
ESPN is like AL Jezeera TV, they want to make news not report it.
February 19th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
@24… It was a great dunk but let’s say it was a Arkansas player with the same dunk on a UGA player and it made the top 10 not one UK fan would be talking about it. Everone is crying about and overhyping it because it was one of our players.
February 19th, 2012 at 3:36 pm
The only complaint I have is that they always show lobs from other teams, when we make the same play 5 times a game. Is it just more impressive with different jerseys.
February 19th, 2012 at 4:22 pm
Anyone knoe how the Nerlens Noel recruiting visit went this weekend?
February 19th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
I saw the top 10 last night and couldn’t believe no Miller either, especially since the dunk was shown as the pre-commercial teezer before the top 10.
February 19th, 2012 at 4:34 pm
And Bledsoe falls down for no reason… again. Ha.
February 19th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
So it made the intro but not the top ten? Oh well, I agree with #14 Jo though, I’m not surprised by anything ESPN does anymore, they have gone far past reporting on sports and now actually influence them. I remember during the football season last year, if it wasn’t an ESPN covered game, it was like it didn’t happen. There were some REALLY good games on CBS and NBC throughout the year that you were lucky to get one paragraph written (forget about highlights). It was even worse during the bowl season. Total BS. That said, does anyone care that much what Digger or ESPN think about us, I really don’t and I sleep great at night, just saying.
February 19th, 2012 at 5:06 pm
What cracks me up is ever since UK’s been ranked number 1, ESPN has been writing/talking about how they still feel North Carolina or Syracuse is the best team in the country, basically looking for excuses to put another team ahead of UK. But when Syracuse or UNC was number 1, god forbid they ever say anybody but those two were the best team in the country. No matter. They’ll have no choice but to talk about us when we win banner number 8!
February 19th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
If it’s college basketball and not on ESPN network, it’s not gonna make top ten.
February 19th, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Bledsoe could be one of the most underrated guys to play at UK in a long time.
February 19th, 2012 at 7:02 pm
He’s kind of a bag of crap but 22 has a point. ESPN doesn’t give us that much love I understand that but that is partially because we hired a coach who has had most of his accomplishments taken away from him. When Cal finally gets his legit “Big One” they will be banging at the door for interviews and attention. How many teams have a 2 hour practice televised on ESPNU?? Only UK and Duke in recent memory….. The dunk looked like it should have been #4 to me but it just a 45 second quick view of highlights and I’m sure we weren’t the only one left out!! We are without arguement the best team in the nation right now so instead of complaining about the love we don’t get lets go out there and use it as blackboard material and smash through these lesser teams on our way to a Final Four. The task at have is for #8 and the less attention we get for it the better. We are sooo good I’d like to have something to piss us off and make us gun harder for the jugular. USE IT!!!!!
February 19th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
ESPN does not put plays made on games not aired on ESPN on the Top 10 if they have anything else to show. They have done that for years. If Millers dunk had been in a game aired on ESPN it would have been number 1.
February 19th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
This argument that it wasn’t on ESPN is bogus. They fricken had a BS turf horse race as #10. It wasn’t a great finish. It wasn’t a big race. And it sure as shiz wasn’t on ESPN. #BUSTED
February 19th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
ESPN expects us to do that every game. It’s not news.
February 19th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
You sure? I saw it at #4 on Saturday night.
February 19th, 2012 at 10:44 pm
#37 Watch how many great plays that where from college basketball games that they do not show make their top 10 list. I have seen many plays over the years that I thought would make it that did not, and everyone was from a game they did not broadcast. They will throw soccer and hockey plays in all of the time.
February 19th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
UK getting on the top 10 plays for dunks is kinda like Cal getting coach of the year for winning games. People expect it to happen so no matter how awesome the dunk was or how great of a coaching job he does, they will both get snubbed cause the ppl at ESPN in their “infinite wisdom” will just say “Well, that was suppose to happen”
February 19th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
And it was on ESPNU’s top 10… but that list is different from the actual Sportscenter Top 10 cause its only made up on colllege plays
February 20th, 2012 at 10:56 am
Game was NOT on one of their networks so I think that’s why it was “snubbed”.