Talk:Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic

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Did you know... that an FBI investigation contributed to the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic, which had been the longest-running U.S. high school all-star basketball game?

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 18:32, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that an FBI investigation contributed to the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic, which had been the longest-running U.S. high school all-star basketball game? Source: "A unique challenge in 2018, however, was the past year’s FBI college basketball investigation and coaching change at Louisville that depleted the Cardinals’ expected 2018 class...And the fact that they had no recruits and what was going on in the world of U of L, I feel certain that contributed to the upheaval in the game and our ultimate decision to take a year break"The Courier-Journal "Absent from this past weekend was the annual KDF Classic, which returned after a 1983 cancellation and is the nation’s oldest high school basketball all-star game."The Courier-Journal
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Created by Bagumba (talk). Self-nominated at 10:32, 3 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
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@Bagumba: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:51, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]