Kentucky basketball in popular culture
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Adam Sandler is a big UK fan.
In what I think is perhaps the most ironic unforseen turn if events, Tyler Herro may end up the most iconic UK player in pop culture. Sure looks that way. Noone saw that coming.
Rondo a close second
Rondo a close second
I just found out that Anthony Davis is going to be in Space Jam 2, which is awesome for both him and UK. 
From the movie "2010" (1984), sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey".
When Tanya Kirbuk (Dame Helen Mirren) asks Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) about Kentucky he says that "they play very good basketball." As it turns out, Dr. Floyd's answer turned out to be remarkably prescient. The 2009-2010 season for the University of Kentucky men's basketball program turned out to be a resurgent year for the team after a few years of relatively mediocrity, in terms of the program's high standards. The season saw the team become the first division I collegiate program to reach two thousand wins, the team was ranked number one in the nation for portions of the season, it entered the N.C.A.A. tournament as a number one seed, and finished the season with the most wins of any division I team for that year (thirty-five). The team also set a record at the time by having five players drafted in the first round of the NBA draft: John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson, Eric Bledsoe, and Daniel Orton.
When Tanya Kirbuk (Dame Helen Mirren) asks Dr. Heywood Floyd (Roy Scheider) about Kentucky he says that "they play very good basketball." As it turns out, Dr. Floyd's answer turned out to be remarkably prescient. The 2009-2010 season for the University of Kentucky men's basketball program turned out to be a resurgent year for the team after a few years of relatively mediocrity, in terms of the program's high standards. The season saw the team become the first division I collegiate program to reach two thousand wins, the team was ranked number one in the nation for portions of the season, it entered the N.C.A.A. tournament as a number one seed, and finished the season with the most wins of any division I team for that year (thirty-five). The team also set a record at the time by having five players drafted in the first round of the NBA draft: John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins, Patrick Patterson, Eric Bledsoe, and Daniel Orton.
Josh Hopkins did the John Wall dance on "Cougartown" and got Courtney Cox to do it while they were dating. He also was on "Quantico" where he had a UK mug sitting on his desk that was part of the storyline.