How well I remember that game!
My then girlfriend, now my wife, was a Maryland graduate, and had been at Maryland when Len Bias was there (a freshman his last year.) But she wasn't really a hoops fan. We were visiting my family for Thanksgiving and it was her first time there with me and all my brothers and my father, going nuts during a Kentucky game.
Almost 30 years later, we are still together. She's a Wildcat fan. And we had a daughter who attended Maryland and a son who insisted on going out of state to be a Kentucky Wildcat.