Visiting Tent City

Kentucky basketball fans are sometimes referred to by Coach Calipari as the craziest fans in the world. I am proud to say that I am a member of the crazy fan base, but there is one thing that I have never done. I have never been one of the people to camp outside of Memorial Colleseum for 3-4 days for a pair of free tickets to a practice. The main reason that I probably haven't done it is the fact that I don't own a tent. Maybe one day I will join the masses and camp out. This year I found an outline of events and decided that I would head down to campus and check out one of them. I picked the night that the players would be handing out pizza to the crowd. Not because I wanted pizza, but because I wanted to interact with the players and possibly get a picture or autograph.

I heard Coach Cal come out and address the crowd about how things were progressing so far.

Here come the players handing out pizzas. Isaiah Briscoe was the first player out and was very excited to be there and seemed like he was having a good time.

The freshmen Jones, Fox and Adebayo were a little more timid with the whole process. They wanted to stay inside, but that just meant that the doors were completely packed with people trying to get up there to meet them.

What a great young man. Briscoe seemed to really be enjoying everything. 

Tai Waynard wanted to take the selfie picture himself, which was fine, but blue Santa decided to photo bomb my picture.

De'Aaron Fox finally came out and embraced the moment and I might add that he is also super fast at signing autographs as well as running up and down the court.

Meeting my new favorite name to say, Sasha Killeya-Jones. I am not sure if he would like this or not, but at the first few home games I couldn't help but think of the guy from Kid-N-Play. He doesn't have the complete flat top, but from the upper deck they seem to look similar.

Bam Adebayo signing my ball, but I couldn't get a good picture with him looking up

My favorite Australian, Isaac Humphries.

Coach Cal's son, Brad Calipari.

Some of the players got on stage for a few question and answers with the media.

I caught Mychal Mulder before he left the stage for a quick picture.

Someone painted some awesome pumpkins. Here is an old logo one.

New logo. I still haven't decided if I like the new logo or not. I will say that it is growing on me though.

This guy is a true professional and a great young man. He knew that everyone was there to meet the wildcats and he didn't disappoint them. He was the last one out there taking pictures and signing autographs. He is my favorite player from this years team and I think he is only going to get better as the season goes on.

What an awesome night! I was running around like a little kid trying to meet all these young men.

Heading down to campus proved to be a great decision and it was so much fun. I am pretty sure that I will be going back in the future years so that I can meet all the incoming and returning players. Thanks for reading and God bless!