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Kentucky Wildcats prepare for three games in five days to open season

Whether Kentucky is ready or not, it will soon find out quite a bit about how good it actually is, and what all it needs to work on.

Whether the men's basketball team (0-0) is ready or not, it will soon find out quite a bit about how good it actually is, and what all it needs to work on.

Gameday
Gameday Information
Kentucky vs. Albany
Friday, November 12 – 7:00 p.m. ET
Lexington, Ky.
Game Notes: UK Get Acrobat Reader | UF Get Acrobat Reader
Coverage
TV: SEC Network
Radio: Affiliates
Satellite radio (Sirius/XM): 132/190
Online audio: All-access
Live stream: WatchESPN
Live stats: Game Center

The No. 2/1 Wildcats open their 2015-16 season Friday at home against Albany (0-0) at 7 p.m. Then, one day later, Kentucky will host NJIT (0-0) at 8 p.m. Three days after that, will face No. 5/4 Duke in Chicago as part of the Champions Classic.

“We're gonna figure out – there's gonna be a lot of (questions) that we'll have answered,” head coach said Thursday. “Mainly, because you're playing – the first team has most of their team back, an NCAA Tournament team. NJIT has their whole team back and their three-year players that beat Michigan on the road. Obviously, Duke is Duke.”

Playing games on back-to-back days is a rarity in college basketball outside of tournament play, but as Coach Cal explained Thursday, with such a young team it gives UK a little more time to prepare for Tuesday's showdown against the defending national champion Blue Devils at the United Center.

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On This Day In UK Basketball History

On March 28, 1992, in what many called the “best NCAA Tournament game ever,” Kentucky takes defending NCAA champion Duke into overtime before losing 104-103 in the East Regional finals in Philadelphia. A last-second shot by Christian Laettner sends Duke to the Final Four, and breaks the hearts of Wildcat fans everywhere. It is Cawood Ledford’s last game as the “Voice of the Wildcats.”

 

On March 28, 1998, against Stanford, Kentucky rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit, then grabbed a 5-point overtime lead, before fending off the Cardinals to advance to the title game for the third straight season. Jeff Sheppard canned three long-range three-pointers - two in the final three minutes and one in overtime - en route to a career-high 27 points.

 

On March 28, 2014, unranked Kentucky beat No. 5 Louisville 74-69, in the 2014 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.  Aaron Harrison buried a three-pointer from the left corner with 39 seconds left that put UK ahead to stay before 41,072 in Lucas Oil Stadium.

 

On March 28, 2015, No. 1 Kentucky defeated No. 8 Notre Dame, 68-66, in the 2015 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight.  With its 37-0 record on the line, Kentucky trailed Notre Dame 59-53 with 6:14 left. UK rallied in front of 19,464 fans in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena and preserved its perfect season thanks to a crucial blocked shot by Willie Cauley-Stein and two game-deciding free throws from Andrew Harrison in the final seconds.

 

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