Auburn is only the 6th #1 team to come to Rupp
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3-2 in those games. Auburn hasn’t won in Rupp in 30 plus years.
I really want to believe we win tomorrow but that’s a really, really good team we are playing.
I really want to believe we win tomorrow but that’s a really, really good team we are playing.
either Robinson is gonna have to play, or Perry, Noah, and Almanor have to give Kentucky something
Actually it was at Freedom Hall, Louisville
I was listening on the radio and Kent Benson tipped one in with the back of his hand to send the game into overtime. Indiana went on to be undefeated.
ESPN gives Auburn a 64% chance of winning - https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/game/_/gameId/401708421/auburn-kentucky
Auburn waxed Ole Miss, but it was right in the middle of the Beard to Indiana speculation that blossomed over the weekend.
Before that though, they had a stretch where they were winning but not exactly blowing the doors off. We might catch them and give them a pre-national championship run wakeup call.
Before that though, they had a stretch where they were winning but not exactly blowing the doors off. We might catch them and give them a pre-national championship run wakeup call.
That game against Florida in 2003 was my first game at Rupp. The place was absolutely rocking and my section never sat down the entire game. A couple of college aged Florida fans in my section got serenaded by 100 Kentucky fans giving them the gator chomp as they hid their faces under their orange caps and left the building with 10 or 12 minutes to go.
That game is the best environment I have ever been in for a sporting event
That game against Florida in 2007… I have not forgotten the awful double dribble call against Joe Crawford at the end of that game. The ball was deflected. I had a perfect view of it but the referee did not.
Who knows what happens if Kentucky wins that game. Tubby was on a plane to Minnesota a few weeks later.
Who knows what happens if Kentucky wins that game. Tubby was on a plane to Minnesota a few weeks later.
That is actually incorrect; in December, 1951 number two Kentucky hosted number one St. John’s. UK won 81 to 40, which is the largest margin of defeat by number one team ever.
Here is Kentucky’s 1951-52 schedule:
en.wikipedia.org
Here is Kentucky’s 1951-52 schedule:
1951–52 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team - Wikipedia
Nice find ... but I think the opening post is talking about during the Rupp Arena era ...That is actually incorrect; in December, 1951 number two Kentucky hosted number one St. John’s. UK won 81 to 40, which is the largest margin of defeat by number one team ever.
Here is Kentucky’s 1951-52 schedule:
1951–52 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team - Wikipedia
Auburn is 2-50 all-time at Kentucky
Based on this, we would win ~4/11 times.
That's not terrible vs the #1 team that has been so dominant. Let's make Saturday 1 of those 4.
If this was best of 7 series, Auburn probably wins 5 or 6 of them on paper. But the game isn't played on paper. Go Cats!!
I just read that Eddie Sutton was the coach the last time Auburn won at Rupp! Wonder if sweat stains will tell his team that to motivate them?
I was at that game. If I remember correctly, we were up 2 at the end and let Auburn hit a 3-pointer to win it.
If they're crowding the three-point line, we have to force the ball to the basket. Shots at the rim, not in the mid-range.
Mid-range shots are fool's gold. Cal is gone, and we're not going back.
So was I. We stunk up the gym. After the game, Sutton was so mad he gave the players a test regarding the game. One of the questions was "what was the final score". None of the players got it right.
The last loss to Auburn in 1988 to Rupp was not only Auburn's second win ever in Lexington but also UK was the #1 ranked team in the country on that day. And I remember too the part that Sutton' asked the players after the game what the final score was and none of the players knew.
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