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Kentucky hosts Louisville – all you need to know

Kentucky faces archrival Louisville in a nationally televised battle for Bluegrass supremacy on Saturday at Rupp Arena

vs Yale
Saturday, December 31
12:00 p.m. ET
Rupp Arena
Lexington,
Coverage
TV: CBS Sports
Radio: UK Sports Network

Saturday is the final day of 2022 and Kentucky head coach already has taxes on his mind. But the taxes Calipari wants to talk about have nothing to do with income, property or sales tax. Instead, it's the kind of theoretical “tax” one pays for being at Kentucky.

“All of this stuff outside the program that goes on here, what's said and all that stuff, that's a tax that you pay to be here. You want to be at Kentucky? Here's the tax. When it doesn't go right, here's what you deal with. And that includes me. I've been paying taxes for a long time.”

That includes criticism in the media and on social media that comes with both wins and losses. And with the Cats having lost two of their last three, those “taxes” are being collected quite often.

Now, Kentucky faces archrival on Saturday at Rupp Arena (Noon ET, CBS). The Cats and the Big Blue Nation would like nothing more than to see their favorite team pound their least favorite squad on New Year's Eve. But Calipari warns that the Cardinals are improving and that they will come to play.

“They're coming in with the mentality that they're going to win the game,” Calipari said. “It's going to be a war, don't think it's going to be anything easy.”

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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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