{"id":208627,"date":"2012-04-02T19:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicekicks.com\/?p=208627"},"modified":"2022-09-16T04:52:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T09:52:33","slug":"footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/","title":{"rendered":"Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#8217;96 NCAA Title in Converse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, a loaded <strong>Kentucky Wildcats<\/strong> roster will attempt to take home the school?s first national title since 1998. While this talented crop has been getting it done in Nikes and Jordans, the champs from ?96 put in work wearing <strong>Converse<\/strong>. Boasting the likes of Antonie Walker, Ron Mercer, Tony Delk, and Nazr Mohammed, the team was arguably the most talented in college basketball history, producing nine NBA players, a 27-game winning streak, and a remarkable 86-point first half performance. The 95-96 &#8216;Cats culminated a dream season by snapping an eighteen-year title drought and taking the juice from ?Cuse in their denim dud matching makeups of the <strong>R.A.W. Energy<\/strong> and <strong>Cons Blue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong> Kentucky Wildcats<br \/>\n<strong>Kicks:<\/strong> Converse R.A.W. Energy &amp; Cons Blue<br \/>\n<strong>Event:<\/strong> NCAA Championship Game<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> April 1, 1996<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208641\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoine Walker in the Converse R.A.W. Energy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208639\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208639\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antoine Walker in the Converse R.A.W. Energy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-208640\" style=\"width: 363px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-208640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kentucky Wildcats in the Converse Cons Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best team in NCAA hoops history?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2415,"featured_media":208638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207912,1205455],"tags":[1225465,1225728,607],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#039;96 NCAA Title in Converse | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#039;96 NCAA Title in Converse shoes. Snkrs Day has release dates, prices, and where to find Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#039;96 NCAA Title in Converse for sale.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#039;96 NCAA Title in Converse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Where to buy Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#039;96 NCAA Title in Converse shoes. Snkrs Day has release dates, prices, and where to find Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#039;96 NCAA Title in Converse for sale.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Snkrs Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-04-03T00:58:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-16T09:52:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/04\/Footwear-Flashback1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"382\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ian Stonebrook\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ian Stonebrook\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"WebPage\",\"ItemPage\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/\",\"name\":\"Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse | Snkrs Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/04\/Footwear-Flashback1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-04-03T00:58:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-16T09:52:33+00:00\",\"description\":\"Where to buy Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse shoes. Snkrs Day has release dates, prices, and where to find Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse for sale.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/04\/Footwear-Flashback1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/04\/Footwear-Flashback1.jpg\",\"width\":\"620\",\"height\":\"382\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Columns\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/columns\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Footwear Flashback\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/columns\/footwear-flashback\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#8217;96 NCAA Title in Converse\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"description\":\"Sneakers News. Culture. Community.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png\",\"width\":400,\"height\":225,\"caption\":\"Snkrs Day\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/nicekicks\",\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nicekicks\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/asnkrsdaya\",\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@snkrsday\",\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/nicekicks\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse | Snkrs Day","description":"Where to buy Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse shoes. Snkrs Day has release dates, prices, and where to find Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse for sale.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse","og_description":"Where to buy Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse shoes. Snkrs Day has release dates, prices, and where to find Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse for sale.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/","og_site_name":"Snkrs Day","article_publisher":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/snkrsday","article_published_time":"2012-04-03T00:58:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-09-16T09:52:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":620,"height":382,"url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/04\/Footwear-Flashback1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Ian Stonebrook","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@snkrsday","twitter_site":"@snkrsday","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ian Stonebrook","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["WebPage","ItemPage"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/","name":"Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse | Snkrs Day","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/04\/Footwear-Flashback1.jpg","datePublished":"2012-04-03T00:58:56+00:00","dateModified":"2022-09-16T09:52:33+00:00","description":"Where to buy Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse shoes. Snkrs Day has release dates, prices, and where to find Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home '96 NCAA Title in Converse for sale.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/04\/Footwear-Flashback1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2012\/04\/Footwear-Flashback1.jpg","width":"620","height":"382"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/footwear-flashback-kentucky-takes-home-96-ncaa-title-in-converse\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Columns","item":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/columns\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Footwear Flashback","item":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/columns\/footwear-flashback\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Footwear Flashback: Kentucky Takes Home &#8217;96 NCAA Title in Converse"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/","name":"Snkrs Day","description":"Sneakers News. Culture. Community.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#organization","name":"Snkrs Day","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2020\/10\/nice-box-400-225.png","width":400,"height":225,"caption":"Snkrs Day"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/snkrsday","https:\/\/x.com\/snkrsday","http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/snkrsday","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/asnkrsdaya","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@snkrsday","http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/snkrsday"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2415"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123865,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208627\/revisions\/1123865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208627"},{"taxonomy":"cultivate_rss","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cultivate_rss?post=208627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}