{"id":33773,"date":"2024-03-30T08:20:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T05:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/33773\/louisville-fan-sends-oakland-check\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T08:20:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T05:20:26","slug":"louisville-fan-sends-oakland-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=33773","title":{"rendered":"Louisville fan sends Oakland check for beating Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville fan sends Oakland check for beating Kentucky\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Anthony Gharib, ESPN<span class=\"timestamp \">March 30, 2024, 12:44 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>March Madness upsets are not only celebrated by fans of the respective winners, but also by supporters of the losing team&#39;s rivals.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Louisville-fan-sends-Oakland-check-for-beating-Kentucky.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The biggest upset this year occurred when the No. 14 seed Oakland Golden Grizzlies defeated the No. 3 seed Kentucky Wildcats 80-76 in the first round of the men&#39;s tournament. the NCAA.  It was Oakland&#39;s second March Madness victory.  The Golden Grizzlies also became the second-lowest seed to defeat Kentucky in the tournament, according to ESPN Stats &#038; Information.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Golden Grizzlies&#39; run ended in the Round of 16, their victory over the Wildcats was appreciated by a fan of the Louisville Cardinals, one of Kentucky&#39;s biggest rivals.<\/p>\n<p>A Louisville native and a fan sent the school a check with a note, according to Oakland head coach Greg Kampe, who posted about it Friday on X. Kampe wrote that the fan every year sends a check to the school that knocks Kentucky out of the championship.  tournament.  The amount was not specified.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Louisville resident and obvious fan sent Oakland a check with a nice note.  He said he normally sends a certain amount each year to the school that knocks Kentucky out of the tournament.  This year, thanks to OUR story, he doubled the amount.  Truly the definition of March Madness<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Greg Kampe (@KampeOU) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KampeOU\/status\/1773833644383100989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Wildcats and Cardinals have met 56 times since 1913. Kentucky leads the all-time <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/series\/\"   title=\"series\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">series<\/a> 39-17.  The Wildcats beat the Cardinals 95-76 in December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Their last postseason meeting came in the 2014 Sweet 16, with No. 8 seed Kentucky upsetting No. 4 seed Louisville.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville fan sends Oakland check for beating Kentucky\u060c Anthony Gharib, ESPNMarch 30, 2024, 12:44 a.m. March Madness upsets are not only celebrated by fans of the respective winners, but also by supporters of the losing team&#39;s rivals. Editor&#39;s Choice The biggest upset this year occurred when the No. 14 seed Oakland Golden Grizzlies defeated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6911,263,97,11082,12491,5726,3489],"class_list":["post-33773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-beating","tag-check","tag-fan","tag-kentucky","tag-louisville","tag-oakland","tag-sends"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33775,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33773\/revisions\/33775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}