For the first time in almost two years, there will not be capacity restrictions at Rupp Arena when Kentucky takes the floor. The Wildcats' home-opener is against a relatively familiar non-conference opponent, Robert Morris. Colonials' head coach Kentucky will try to snap a three-game losing streak by wearing one of the BBN's favorite uniforms. The Wildcats will have a white out Saturday night at Vanderbilt Stadium.
Kentucky last wore the all-white uniforms with white helmets in the After a against the spread ATS record last week, Luckett's Locks has put together back-to-back winning weekends for the first time this season. Not sure it was well worth the wait. KSR will travel down to Somerset on Friday for a battle between two county rivals in the second round of the Class 5A playoffs. Kickoff is scheduled for Tonight, your University of Kentucky Wildcats will look to get back on track after the season-opening loss to Duke with a matchup vs.
UK fans don't forget hard losses. Ask them about Christian Laettner in '92, and they'll tell you he stomped on Aminu Timberlake's chest and should have been ejected before he ever could have hit the game-winner. But Kentucky won in '96, so fans didn't think twice about Calipari, clearing the way for a decade later, when Calipari's the first icon in Lexington since Pitino.
You can see where this is going. If you think about it that way, nobody exposes the absurdity behind this rivalry better than Pitino and Calipari. College basketball fans love their coach's principles until their coach is on the other sideline. Then he's a snakeoil salesman and John Calipari is a God. This makes sports fans look every bit like the hypocritical children we all are. The two coaches are less heads and tails than two of the exact same coin, where the only difference that matters in this rivalry is who the coin belongs to.
All of Lexington's hate for Pitino and all Louisville's hate for Calipari -- the depth of the disdain is incredible and authentic, but it'd all be reversed if Pitino never left Kentucky and Cal landed at Louisville instead.
Can you imagine what Kentucky fans would be saying about Calipari this week? But then you look closer at Pitino and Calipari, two coaches who can't escape each other no matter where they go. Their roles have changed. Success has come and gone and then come again.
There have been scandals. There have been titles. There has been heartbreak. But every step of the way, there's been a doppleganger not too far off, competing for the same recruits, the same wins, and the same ultimate success that doubles as validation for a life lived through basketball.
It's enough to drive any normal person insane. Pitino and Calipari don't just personify the Louisville-Kentucky rivalry, they make it look rational. It's March in New Orleans. John Calipari will probably not be wearing a Rick Pitino mask at the pregame press conference Friday. It's Calipari coaching Kentucky now, Pitino's at Louisville. Louis, an important chunk of legalese has come to light.
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Rick Pitino and John Calipari insist that they're friends, no matter what the rest of us think. In this article:. Tonight the two meet for a chance to play for the National Championship as leaders of one of the more intense rivalries in college sports with Pitino-Calipari dynamic serving as a digestible form of the larger battle. It's Obi-Wan and Vader dueling for the commonwealth of Kentucky. The A. By Sean Newell. Shop at Amazon.
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