A year ago, Evansville won 11 games and lost in the opening round of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. Voters in the league's preseason poll this year picked the Purple Aces to finish eighth in the conference standings.
On Tuesday night, however, Evansville upset No. 1 Kentucky on the road.
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Evansville is the story of the night after upset over No. 1 team
Evansville just pulled off the regular season's version of UMBC's win over Virginia in the 2017-18 NCAA tournament. After his team's loss to Evansville, John Calipari admitted that second-year coach Walter McCarty, a star on the 1995-96 Kentucky team that won a national title under Rick Pitino, had "outcoached" him.