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Drake and Ray Allen each highlighted a Midnight Madness event on Friday, but that’s about where the similarities end.
Drake air-balled a 3-point attempt at Kentucky’s Big Blue Madness, while Allen, who was featured at UConn’s First Night and remains undecided about playing in the NBA this season, is the league’s all-time leading 3-point shooter.
Despite his miss, Drake’s mere presence may have an impact on Kentucky visitors like Malik Newman, who previously said he was excited about the possibility of meeting the rap star.
“[Calipari] said Drake might come this year,” Newman, the top point guard in the nation, told the Clarion-Ledger before the visit. “That would be a really good event to go to. It really lets me know what they’re working with and that [Kentucky] has a lot of connections.”
Allen did chest bump coach Kevin Ollie, who led the Huskies to the NCAA championship last April in a win over Kentucky.
While Kentucky — and its nine McDonald’s All-Americans — has designs on the NCAA title this year, UConn women’s coach Geno Auriemma told the fans that Storrs, Conn., is “the basketball capital of the world.”
UConn, after all, is the only program to win the men’s and women’s title in the same year and they’ve done it twice — in 2004 and 2014.
Meantime, in Lexington, Drake called Kentucky coach John Calipari “one of the most important people in my life,” and said he was “like the George Clooney of the hardwood” because of his hair.
Villanova coach Jay Wright, who was in studio at ESPNU, might have something to say about that, since he has long been compared to Clooney in looks and sartorial splendor.
