LEXINGTON — For just the second time in college basketball history the regular season opens Tuesday with a matchup between the preseason No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Associated Press top 25.
While Kentucky has never opened the season in a game between the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the Associated Press poll, it has played eight previous one-vs.-two games at some point in the season.
John Calipari was actually involved in each of Kentucky's last two one-vs.-two games, as UK's coach in a 2013 Champions Classic matchup with Michigan State and as the coach at UMass in a 1996 Final Four meeting with Kentucky.