Anti-shunshinepumper
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Prior to Rick Barnes tenure as coach we had only beaten Kentucky at Rupp 4 times - 1977,1979,1999, and 2006. Just 4 times in 35 attempts. Since Barnes took the reins here, we have beat Kentucky at Rupp the same number of times - 4! I believe Rick has won 4 out of 9 times, just shy of 50%.
I read this a little bit ago, and I thought it was pretty impressive, so I decided to look over all the games vs KY with Barnes as head coach.
We have faced Kentucky 22 times in the last 10 years that Rick Barnes has been coaching here. The wins/losses with Barnes at the helm is currently tied at 11-11 (3 of those games being tournament games in which Barnes is 2-1).
Again, not bad at all considering KY leads the overall series 161-80.
If Barnes wins this game tmmrw night, his regular season record vs KY will be 10-10, and he will hold the tie breaker with them via tournament play 2-1 (2019, 2022 W -2018 L).
As I looked over the last decade of games with Kentucky, I noticed the majority of the time we end up splitting the two games we play every year, with each taking a win.
Oddly enough, if we win tmmrw, out of all of our splits half of them will end up being the home team losing on their home floor ( a trend in our favor this game).
In 9 seasons we have split 7 times. Only twice during that time has one team sweep the other team (TN- in 2018 and KY in 2023).
The good news is -
based on this data, the odds we win tmmrw's game is almost 80 %!
What makes the likelihood we win tmmrw night even greater IMO, is Kentucky has won the last 2 outings. During this Barnes vs KY decade long series, no team has won more than 2 straight.
You have to go all the way back to 2012-13 to find a time when Kentucky beat us 3 straight, and if you go back a little further to 2000,
until Barnes arrived we were just 6-30 against the Wildkittens.
This fact makes what Barnes has accomplished against Kentucky pretty dang awesome if you ask me. I think he makes it even more so tmmrw night with a another win at Rupp!
I read this a little bit ago, and I thought it was pretty impressive, so I decided to look over all the games vs KY with Barnes as head coach.
We have faced Kentucky 22 times in the last 10 years that Rick Barnes has been coaching here. The wins/losses with Barnes at the helm is currently tied at 11-11 (3 of those games being tournament games in which Barnes is 2-1).
Again, not bad at all considering KY leads the overall series 161-80.
If Barnes wins this game tmmrw night, his regular season record vs KY will be 10-10, and he will hold the tie breaker with them via tournament play 2-1 (2019, 2022 W -2018 L).
As I looked over the last decade of games with Kentucky, I noticed the majority of the time we end up splitting the two games we play every year, with each taking a win.
Oddly enough, if we win tmmrw, out of all of our splits half of them will end up being the home team losing on their home floor ( a trend in our favor this game).
In 9 seasons we have split 7 times. Only twice during that time has one team sweep the other team (TN- in 2018 and KY in 2023).
The good news is -
based on this data, the odds we win tmmrw's game is almost 80 %!
What makes the likelihood we win tmmrw night even greater IMO, is Kentucky has won the last 2 outings. During this Barnes vs KY decade long series, no team has won more than 2 straight.
You have to go all the way back to 2012-13 to find a time when Kentucky beat us 3 straight, and if you go back a little further to 2000,
until Barnes arrived we were just 6-30 against the Wildkittens.
This fact makes what Barnes has accomplished against Kentucky pretty dang awesome if you ask me. I think he makes it even more so tmmrw night with a another win at Rupp!
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