Two buses — one blue, the other white — left Lexington on Saturday morning, snaking their way east along the Mountain Parkway.
The ultimate destination for those aboard would be the Appalachian Wireless Arena in Pikeville, home to this year’s Kentucky basketball Blue-White Game, a preseason scrimmage usually played in Rupp Arena but moved this time around as part of the program’s ongoing efforts to help those affected by the devastating flooding in the region nearly three months ago.
Before the Wildcats arrived in Pikeville, however, they had a stop to make.