Fun Fact: Longest Game

ESPN sports analyst Craig James was deposed yesterday for Mike Leach’s libel/slander/bitterness lawsuit. The deposition lasted five hours.

Five hours. Can you imagine? I’ve been through the process, and though mine lasted fewer than two hours, it was still tedious and uncomfortable and the entire time I just wanted it to be over.

This got me wondering: what is the longest game in NCAA history? I suspected it involved Arkansas, and I was write. The Razorbacks battled the Kentucky Wildcats on November 1, 2003 for four hours, fifty-six minutes. Kentucky, characteristically, lost 71-63 in the seventh overtime.

I wasn’t there, but I remember that game nonetheless. It started off exciting, then got tedious and uncomfortable and I just wanted it to be over.