When Kentucky hosts Tennessee in men's college basketball this weekend, a spot as a projected No. 1 seed for the 2019 NCAA tournament won't be the only thing on the line.
The future of this rivalry as we know it could hang in the balance.
Kentucky is clearly the much better team as far as NCAA history is concerned. The Wildcats have won eight national championships while the Volunteers have yet to ever reach the Final Four. And the Wildcats have been the better team for most of the current decade. But in the four years before John Calipari became UK's head coach, Tennessee was consistently better than Kentucky.