Lights, camera, action ... on Kentucky

Lights, camera, action ... on Kentucky

By Eric Lindsey on March 9, 2010 2:53 PM

We all know that the Kentucky's fan base is one of the largest and most passionate fan bases in all of sports. When the UK men's basketball team is on TV, the Commonwealth slows to a halt and people watch.

But who knew the rest of the nation took so much interest in the Cats as well?

According to Mike Humes in ESPN's communications department, four of ESPN's six highest-rated college basketball games of the season have involved Kentucky. ESPN's ratings indicate that some of this year's UK men's basketball games involved the third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-highest rated games of the year.

Humes did not give the specific games for those four games, but with the UK-Louisville and UK-North Carolina games on CBS this year, one could presume that UK-Connecticut and UK-Tennessee were two of them.