Kentucky vs Louisville

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VolCard

VolCard

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OK its time. Gameday is this Saturday. I wont ask Vol fans who they think will win because 50% wont give a damn and 50% will go SEC all the time. Just get your popcorn ready and I hope my fellow Cards fans are still around. With that said. Game on pussies.

**** LEXINGTON. **** UK. **** CALIPARI.
 
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Well seems someone is excited. Good luck in the game Saturday, best chance UL has gotten to beat UK in a while.
 
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Pulling for a scoreless tie. With multiple missed shots and bad passes. Maybe play it on an aircraft carrier.
 
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VolCard said:
OK its time. Gameday is this Saturday. I wont ask Vol fans who they think will win because 50% wont give a damn and 50% will go SEC all the time. Just get your popcorn ready and I hope my fellow Cards fans are still around. With that said. Game on pussies.

**** LEXINGTON. **** UK. **** CALIPARI.
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Not really.
A % won't care.
A % will pull for the SEC.
But, another unknown % will pull against UK in basketball no matter what.
 
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the only and I mean ONLY way I'd pull for the Cats is if I knew they'd have to vacate the win right after and it was an important game.
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#8
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Little Brother. Always have been, always will be.

Enjoy your regular season win, the first in 3 tries in your new bucket value meal Arena.
 
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Congrats on the win. UK is not prepared for this one. UL has too much senior leadership not to win this one. That said, Siva better take advantage. He'd hate to be the first U of L player to lose to Kentucky 5 times. And if Rick can't beat Cal on a down year, then when will he?
 
#10
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Gorgi Dieng has been cleared to play! This just changed the outlook even more!:rock::dance2::p
 
#18
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A decent snippet from one of todays KSR blog posts, concerning the rivalry.

Do you ever feel that people just don’t “get” how big the Kentucky/Louisville rivalry is? I can’t tell you how many people outside of the state I’ve tried to explain it to, for them only to roll their eyes and silently rank it below UNC/Duke, Yankee/Red Sox, or another epic, albeit not quite as fervent, rivalry. Finally, someone in the national media has done the series justice. Dana O’Neil, formerly of the Triumvirate (since Forde flew the ESPN coop, she has turned the Cal hate down a few notches), has a piece out this afternoon examining the rivalry, which she calls “The Commonwealth’s Great Divide.”

O’Neil did her research, interviewing Terry Meiners, Derek Anderson, a Rupp Arena usher, and of course, Rick Pitino, who said that after two decades on both sides of the fence, he still doesn’t really get why the rivalry is such a big deal. Pitino told O’Neil about finding Bill Keightley crying in the Freedom Hall locker room when he was still the Kentucky coach. When Pitino asked him if he was alright, Keightley responded: “You’ll never understand how much this game means. You’ll never understand. This is all that people will talk about.”

Keightley was right:

“It’s tough for a Northeast person to understand, I think,” Pitino said. “We grew up with the Knicks, the Yankees, but we would never get that worked up over a game. Sports are a meaningful distraction to people there. Here, it’s not a distraction. It’s their life.”
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I grew up in Louisville, have spent several years in Lexington, have lived in West Virginia and Florida, and obviously have spent a lot of time in Tennessee. The UK/UofL rivalry is a VERY, VERY HUGE DEAL...inside Kentucky.

For the rest of the country, it's a December basketball game between two teams from the same state, and sometimes they are both ranked.
Duke/UNC is considered a much bigger deal, because the games are later in the year, when more people are starting to watch basketball, and that game nearly always involves two highly ranked teams. Also, the Duke/UNC games are conference games in what is always either the best basketball conference or at least second or third.
The UK/UofL game is about bragging rights for the two schools and may eventually impact the two teams' tournament seeds a little bit.
 
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ukvols said:
The UK/UofL game is about bragging rights for the two schools and may eventually impact the two teams' tournament seeds a little bit.
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Or perhaps a lot. UK will not play any more ranked teams other than Mizzou or Florida. How they perform in this game is critical to seeding in March.
 
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If UofL wins

- UK will be ahead 30-15 (series), 8-2 (titles) & 2,098-1,674 (wins).

- UofL will be ahead 1-0 (coaches doing it in restaurants).

— Not Jerry Tipton (@NotJerryTipton) December 28, 2012
 
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One vote for...don't give a flying fudge cycle.....I knew you guys would want to know
 
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Brian McCat said:
Or perhaps a lot. UK will not play any more ranked teams other than Mizzou or Florida. How they perform in this game is critical to seeding in March.
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If they rip through the SEC, their name and overall record will get them a high seed. Now, if they find themselves on the Bubble, then this game will carry a lot of weight.
 
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