Ed. Note – fuel the outcry over these early Midnight Madness celebrations as a recruiting tool.  Kentucky got a commitment from Top 25 player Daniel Orton after he attended the celebration on Friday night.  Orton credited the fan support as a key reason for his decision.  Would he have attended if UK’s Madness was on the same night as everyone else?

Some Kentucky and West Virginia coverage from their Madness celebrations tonight…  Illinois and Marshall, you’re on the clock.

Apparently UK’s MM festivities involved disco lights…

… and new unis…

Here’s a link to UK’s coverage (we have no idea how to rip that video)…  we’re loving Patrick Patterson’s mini-fro…

More UK pics…  (photo credits:  Lexington Herald-Leader)

And we can’t even find a single photo of the WVU celebration (yet).  C’mon Mountaineers, do you guys have digital cameras out there yet? 

We’ll try again tomorrow. 

Ok, here goes, there are some WVU photos up on Facebook (photo credit: Andrew Ashley).  Devin Ebanks looks sicknasty. 

Hopefully more from Illinois later today…  of course the football team lost, so nobody stuck around for “the world’s biggest practice…”

(Photo Credit: AP)

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