This is sort of merging threads, but you look at the emotion of the guys on that team who had been there a while when the game ended - Rash in near tears as he ends up with the ball, Jake and Souley locking arms watching the Khalid foul shots with Jake looking like he can't take it any more, Ricky snarling, screaming "they don't know" - the completely disjointed and unorganized celebration as the buzzer sounded with people running every which way not sure what they were supposed to do, etc.
Now Kentucky will be happy if they win it this year, but it just won't mean as much to most of those kids. It can't. Darius Miller, yes - perhaps Terrence Jones, who had to overcome some slumps and people questioning his heart. But for most of them, they haven't gone through the wars and had the near-misses sting, to the point where everything becomes an obsession to try to get to that moment, and winning it for each other and for their program.
