When he entered the NBA in the mid-1980s, Larry Krystkowiak was eager to visit the Boston Garden and the Forum, homes of the teams that dominated the league in that era: the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers.
Utah's basketball coach has a similar feeling about taking his team into Rupp Arena in Lexington, Ky. “That's going to be an unbelievable environment,” Krystkowiak said of Saturday's game at No. 19 Kentucky.
The game is the centerpiece of Krystkowiak’s upgraded 2018-19 schedule, but Utah’s experience in front of about 22,000 fans will be conditional. A good performance could revive the Utes; a blowout loss would knock them down even further.