The Rivalry: Episode One -- Kentucky Wildcats vs. Louisville Cardinals
by Glenn Logan on Nov 9, 2011 6:00 PM EST
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PrintVia who else? Mike at Card Chronicle.
This particular production is a little Louisville-heavy for me, but it is a Louisville station doing the production (WHAS 11). It is a great sin to include the first game, but exclude the Rex Chapman game. Of course, that's just my partisan opinion.
Still, all in all it's a very nice production. Some of the old footage of Joe B. Hall refusing to talk about Louisville and Rick Pitino talking about how fast he thought he could turn Kentucky around made me smile, and even more so when he was proven right about that.
It sure is a strange sequence of events that got us where we are right now, and the amazing amount of intertwined fates that have brought us to the present. This year, Kentucky and Louisville will play for the 30th time since the series was officially resumed after the 1983 Regional Final in Knoxville, and it promises to be a beauty if both teams manage to come in healthy.
Despite their protestations to the contrary, Cardinal fans took note of the Morehouse game the other day, and more than a few of them expressed concern. That's the one good thing about a game like that is that it can cause some soul-searching and hand-wringing among your main rival.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed it, I assume there will be more.
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It definitely is Louisville-centric
The fact that Bozich and Crawford are Louisville fans simply gushes forth.
You are right that leaving the Rex Chapman beating out of the video is unconscionable. They also could have included the 1996 game (Derek Anderson dunk-fest – I was there and the beating caused general melancholy among the red fans), the 1999 games which was a 30-point UL beating, the 1995 game (a 23-point beating), and the 1992 game (in which Mashburn and Rhodes showed the red how to play the game).
They can like it, they can not like it.....but the storm is coming....
and it will tear down anything in it’s path. Including Louisville, Pitino, and anyone who is silly enough not to get out of the way.
I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!!
by Greg Alan Edwards on Nov 9, 2011 7:35 PM EST reply actions
I will be honest with you...
I think UK puts a beating on UL. UL is good, but UK is on another level. UL has a HOF coach, top 10 recruiting class, returned everybody but Knowles, and only beat Belleramine by 8 pts. There is no excuse for only beating them by 8pts. Most people might not want to use that game to measure how UL will be in December. Fine, I can agree with that. But is there anyone here that really thinks UL should have only won by 8pts? They have experience, talent, depth, and Rick Pitino. I think that should be the equation for a 20pt win over a team like Belleramine. UK is going to roll all over UL.
Bellarime was only down to Duke by five at half time but eventually lost by 25
Xavier only beat them by three points. Remember they are division II champions and ranked number one this year. Go Knights…!
A man is nothing more than a summation of his scars!
Ya know...
the state of Kentucky has a ton of good BBall teams, huh? :)
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by kentuckyrules on Nov 10, 2011 11:44 AM EST up reply actions
Don't care if they are the best D II team to ever play the game
A top 10 D I team should run them off the floor. UK would kill Belleramine. And that is the difference between UK and teams like UL and Xavier.
Off topic
But I just watched Miss. St. lose to Akron by 10 in Starkville. Sidney didn’t play for much of the second half based on coach’s decision. When he did play, he only hustled when thrown the ball. He hardly tried to play defense. Not sure how Stansbury puts up with him.
Yeah Akron handled pretty well....
It is losses like this that keep teams like MSU out of the tourney when they are on the bubble. You just have to win these games. Sometimes these losses are swept away and excuses are made but when you are sitting on the bubble, all they can do is look in the mirror and admit they didnt do enough.
Slower Traffic Keep Right!
MSU wss never going to be a problem anyway
I know it sounds arrogant, but short of a flu epidemic, the only concerns we have are Vandy and Florida. Unless we forget everything we know one night.
I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!!
by Greg Alan Edwards on Nov 9, 2011 9:43 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
And doesn't Vandy have an injured player or two??
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by kentuckyrules on Nov 10, 2011 11:42 AM EST up reply actions
Festus Ezeli
Out until conference time with an injury and punishment for impermissible benefits.
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And Bama only beat UAH by 7 in exhibition...
UAH (University of Alabama-Huntsville) is locally known as a good little engineering school with some hockey fanatics hanging around… That fact has sure slowed a bunch of rolls when it comes to smack talkin’ about this year’s Bama basketball team.
If your wings don't sweep....
I really thought Sidney was going to get it together this year.
And he may yet.
I was expecting more out of Miss St.
New Bracketology, Cats #1 MW
UK, UNC, Syrcause & OSU #1’s; Pitt #2 in MW.
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
This Year's game
I just hope that this year’s game that the Cats put a major beat down on the Cards like never before. Then we will see what kinds of BS that the two jerks that announce and are always saying how great Pitino is and running down Cal and the Cats will have to say. Before I forget, one needs to put some dye on that grey hair so he will not look so OLD and FOOLISH when he talks.
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