Ok, it’s not quite that simple. But we love needling the big blue nation.

Thursday, UK coach Billy Gillispie gave his time to coach against a sixth-grade team from Dallas. His players? About the same size, just a tad older. Well, MUCH older.

Try a team of horse-racing jockeys. And the final score?

Sixth grade 49, jockeys 32.

We kid you not.

In fact, the jockeys played this same game last year, against the same team, and barely beat them … when they were in fifth grade.

”I wasn’t going to go back to Dallas beaten for the second year in a row,“ 12-year-old Titan Grant Troutt said triumphantly.  ”But the jockeys are tough to play against. They’re super fast and strong.“

After the jump, the intimidation of 119-pound jockeys on a court.

Of course, these kids couldn’t overlook the hulking 5′1″ center for team jockey. Or that bruising 4′10″ power forward who runs horses at Churchill Downs. Or that versatile 4′7″ shooting guard who weighs less than the basketball.

The Race Track Chaplaincy of New York organized the event with jockeys from the Saratoga Race Course. We won’t mock the event too much: Money from the event goes to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund.

Still, if Gillispie can’t coach Robbie Albarado to a win over sixth graders, what chance does he have against Billy Donovan?

Kidding UK fans. Don’t kill us. Put your guns down.