After more than 40 years in Division I men’s basketball, the Evansville Aces, a team only 200 miles from Lexington, might get its first shot at taking on Kentucky thanks to new head coach and former University of Kentucky great Walter McCarty.
McCarty, hired by the Aces this year, announced Wednesday night during a fan event in Henderson that the two schools were talking about playing in early November of the 2019-2020 season, according to a report by Pat Hickey, of Evansville’s Courier & Press.
“When’d we talk to (UK head coach John Calipari)? McCarty asked Evansville senior associate athletic director Lance Wilkerson, according to the report.