As the final seconds of the second half expired and the University of Kentucky claimed a 69-61 victory over the University of Louisville in the NCAA national semifinal basketball game, fans begin to erupt into cheers outside a bar in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

With loud cheers of "C-A-T-S, Cats, Cats, Cats!" hundreds of UK fans parade down State St. and begin to fill the area in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

Riot police from the Lexington Police Department begin to take their positions along the edges of State St. in preparation for riots and large crowds in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

As word spread of UK's 67-59 victory over the University of Kansas in the NCAA championship game for UK's first national title since 1998, fans and rioters begin to burn small posters and their own shirts in groups among the hundred that had gathered on State St. in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

A woman is groped after flashing her breasts to the crowd that had gathered on State St. in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend. Despite the gropings, other women continued to flash the crowd and receive the same gropings.

As firefighters begin to leave after responding to a small fire, rioters grab hold of a hose and drag it several hundred feet down the neighborhood block in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

School flag in hand, rioters jump on and attempt to destroy a car parked on State St. in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

Rioters tip over a car on State St. in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend. The car was destroyed in phases as police would push rioters away from the vehicle but would back off and allow them to return a short while later.

Crowds watch and a police helicopter circles overhead as a car that was smashed, flipped and burned by rioters is engulfed by flames on State St. in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

Amid clouds of smoke from extinguished fires and teargas, riot police move in to arrest those suspected of starting fires, getting in fights or throwing beer bottles on State St. in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

A man shows two wounds from being hit by pepper spray pellets fired by riot police while trying to make arrests in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

Crowds scatter after riot police fire a mix of tear gas and pepper spray pellets in order to chase down and arrest rioters in Lexington, Ky. during Final Four championship weekend.

Riot police arrest and surround a rioter suspected of throwing a beer bottle during Final Four championship weekend in Lexington, Ky. By the end of the weekend, police arrested roughly 80 rioters and firefighters responded to 100 nuisance and larger fires.