Whatever the outcome of Saturday’s Kentucky-Louisville men’s basketball Armageddon, Chris Mack will make history at the KFC Yum Center.
The new U of L head man will, amazingly, be the first coach from either school in the modern history (since 1982-83) of the Wildcats-Cardinals series to make his rivalry debut in Louisville.
Famously, Kentucky’s Joe B. Hall and Louisville’s Denny Crum commenced the modern Cats-Cards rivalry in the 1983 NCAA Tournament round of eight. The “Dream Game” was played at Stokely Athletic Center on the campus of the University of Tennessee.