What. A. Sport.
LSU brought its sideline basketball hoop to Lexington, and Kentucky made sure the prop became part of the final scene at Kroger Field.
The setup was familiar. The Tigers arrived as two-score favorites with the hoop in tow, this time with a Power K on the backboard. Then, just like LSU had done in 2024 against Kentucky in Oxford, the Tigers got their own celebratory dunk after taking a 27-24 lead with 9:42 left in the game.
But that moment didn’t last long.
Kentucky answered with the upset, and once the field storming began, Big Blue Nation added its own twist. During the chaos, one fan sprinted over and hammered down on the unsuspecting LSU support staff.
“Dunk on your ass!” the fan yelled, recording every step before the Tigers knew what hit them.
The basketball didn’t just get mocked. It disappeared.
A fan later called into the KSR Postgame Show and said the ball had made its way back to Bullitt County and would not be heading to Baton Rouge. Bill put it this way:
“There may or may not be a certain round object that is making its way back to Bullitt County tonight,” caller Bill joked.
Then his friend Richard jumped in with the rest of the story:
“I told ’em I was gonna take it!” Bill’s friend, Richard, jumped in on speakerphone.
“… In the first quarter, they carried it down there. And I said, ‘When we win this game, I’m jumping over this fence, I’m stealing that ball, and I’m running out the gate.’
Allegedly. Allegedly.
And that’s what I did, and we’re down the Bluegrass Parkway right now.”
So yes, the hoop was there, the dunk happened, and the ball ended up staying in Kentucky.
And if there was ever any doubt about how fans would handle LSU’s celebration gimmick, this finished the job.
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