Victoria Dunlap nearly dunked herself into history. Yes, dunked.Late in the second half of UK’s 87-47 rout of UT Martin on Tuesday night, Dunlap tried to do what only five women’s college players and three WNBA players (according to various reports) have ever done before. With the game already well in hand, Dunlap tried to throw down a slam dunk, which had it gone in, would have been the first dunk in UK Hoops history.The third-year forward picked off a pass just past half court and raced the length of the floor for what looked like a layup attempt. Dunlap said she started thinking about going for the dunk when she intercepted the pass, but it wasn’t until the last two steps before she tried to do her best Candace Parker impression.”As I was dribbling I was like, ‘let’s just go ahead and go,” Dunlap said. “So then I took my last two steps and I was like ‘just do it.’ ” And boy did she nearly do it. Dunlap had enough height on the attempt – video replays showed she had the ball a couple of inches over the front rim – but the dunk attempt bounced off the back of the rim.”I think I might have grabbed the rim a little too much to bring it down,” Dunlap said.The forward from Nashville, Tenn., said she attempted a similar throwdown in high school, but never had she done it on such a big stage. Although she missed it, the 5,859 fans in attendance rose to their feet and gave Dunlap a standing ovation.”It’s the most talked about missed shot in women’s basketball history at Kentucky,” said head coach Matthew Mitchell, who was visibly surprised at the dunk attempt on the sidelines. “She did miss the shot.” In typical Matthew Mitchell fashion, he took a playful jab at his star forward for missing the attempt.”I just have not been working much with her on dunking,” Mitchell said. “I’m the only person yet in the program that can dunk. … Clearly we have to up our individual instruction program to work on dunking the basketball.”In all seriousness, Mitchell was perfectly fine with the dunk attempt, calling it an “electrifying play.”With the urging of her teammates, who before the season said she could dunk the ball and had done so with a volleyball, it likely won’t be her last try.”We’ll have to make sure we know time and score and the situation of the game,” Mitchell said, “but that was a good time to try one.”