Tennessee got molly-whopped, curb-stomped and smashed into oblivion the last time they shared a basketball court with the Kentucky Wildcats. Tonight they will try to pay back that pain in full when John Calipari’s team heads to Thompson-Boling Arena for a 9 pm ET Super Tuesday tip-off on ESPN.
In this humble writer’s opinion, the first matchup between these border rivals was one of the most beautiful basketball games these two eyes have ever seen in person. A glorious, dominant performance, it’s right up there with the 2015 team’s suffocating first half of defense against UCLA. Against Tennessee the 2022 Cats shot 67.