Dick Vitale calls on Kentucky, John Calipari to renew rivalry with B1G team
Dick Vitale has a message for John Calipari and Mike Woodson: renew the Kentucky-Indiana rivalry.
Kentucky and Gonzaga recently agreed to a home-and-home series. Vitale reacted by calling for Calipari and Woodson to agree to future games between the Wildcats and Hoosiers.
This is a quality pre conf. matchup btw @KentuckyMBB & @ZagMBB .Now a NO BRAINER @UKCoachCalipari needs to get together with @MikeWoodsonNBA & they MUST agree that @IndianaMBB & KENTUCKY will play ! via @ESPN App https://t.co/pxmKCWc88d
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) August 4, 2022
In May, Woodson told Zach Osterman of the Indianapolis Star that he reached out to Cal about bringing the series back:
“I’m gonna stay on his heels about trying to get the Kentucky-Indiana series back on the table. Over the years, that was a helluva game. It might not be Bloomington-Lexington. However we’ve got to get it done, I’ll take it.”
The teams faced each other annually from 1969 to 2011. The last regular-season meeting took place on Dec. 10, 2011, in Assembly Hall, when Indiana won 73-72. The last 2 meetings have been in the NCAA Tournament. UK won 102-90 on March 23, 2012, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Indiana won the most recent meeting, 73-67 at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa on March 19, 2016.
Kentucky leads the all-time series 32-25.