Year before IU won against a number 1 Kentucky team. Miss those years.
Most Intense UK Rivalry
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He was the real deal in high school. Those years BNL, Martinsville, Bloomington north, Bloomington south and Edgewood high schools where all great teams within spitting distance. All had D1 high major type players. It was a damn dog fight for 3-4 years in that area. Saw some great high school games back then. Damon played every spot on the floor. He ruined his knees before he got to IU.
I started off writing....
SI - College Basketball's best rivalries (2018)
Fansided (2020) Ranking the top 25 college basketball rivalries
Didn't take too long for someone to confirm that opinion.....
I know a lot of UK fans feel this way - I've seen the posts. I wonder how many really believe that, or just want to believe it, or are just saying it to rile up the Card fans, but it didn't take but a single Google search to find these articles from SI and Fansided ranking the UK/UL rivalry as the 2nd best college basketball rivalry in the nation.
SI - College Basketball's best rivalries (2018)
Fansided (2020) Ranking the top 25 college basketball rivalries
The IU/UK rivalry keeps intensifying IMO . It seems IU fans despise everything Kentucky. They’re fans treated the UK players like crap when they played their last. Louisville is a rival, but I don’t think their fans ever acted that way towards our players. I know one thing, we would’ve never treated their players that way in rupp. Maybe more so now after that incidence, but it seems to mean much more to IU fans.
Regardless, if you're behind enemy lines it's your job to fly the banner for us!
It was a Golden Era in Indiana, specifically in the area you listed, and Indiana was the Mecca of high school talent then. But we cannot leave out southern Indiana too, even though it wasn’t as fertile as the Indianapolis or Bloomington areas, the entire state was producing top high school talent.
The mid and late 80’s in Louisville peaked during that time too. Yes, Griff and Bennett were a bit earlier than that but they ushered in Kimbro, Williams, Crook, Spencer, Houston, Anderson, Bacon, Fairdale’s Phi Slamma Jamma (LOL can’t believe I remembered that!) and more. And to top that off, the King of the Bluegrass was peaking too even with a visit from King Rex.
Not sure as fans, if we will ever witness that again. All that legendary talent without cell phones and social media to hype it. Crazy isn’t it.
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Guess it sorta depends on age too. I grew up as a teenager watching the IU-Uk series with Hall-Knight. It was INTENSE. No way I would’ve missed that game. I’ve lived on the Tennessee border my whole life. Never did I feel like UK-Ut was in the same area code as UK-IU. Just a matter of perspectives.
For me, I grew up with UK vs the devil incarnate Bobby Knight and the Hoosiers.
We didn’t play UL. The series record was very even.
One of the first “cuss” words I remember saying was in a store in Evansville where they sold “IU” shirts. I asked my mom, “Why in the hell would someone where a shirt like that?”
i can remember when they had the exhibition against the Soviets. I didn’t know who to root against more. I now realize that it was wrong of me, but I was rooting for injuries to occur on both sides.
Now IU is pretty much as irrelevant as Brezhnev and Andropov, I still don’t like em.
We didn’t play UL. The series record was very even.
One of the first “cuss” words I remember saying was in a store in Evansville where they sold “IU” shirts. I asked my mom, “Why in the hell would someone where a shirt like that?”
i can remember when they had the exhibition against the Soviets. I didn’t know who to root against more. I now realize that it was wrong of me, but I was rooting for injuries to occur on both sides.
Now IU is pretty much as irrelevant as Brezhnev and Andropov, I still don’t like em.
Eddie Sutton never thought the Little Brother remark would upset Loserville fans like it did
Crum never accepted the 3 pointer Rex was the best
Mr Keightley arranged 2 bench passes for me in that game Louisville fans figured they would blow out UK boy were they wrong
After the game Sutton and Dwayne Casey rode out to The Hitching Post a bar owned by Sheriff Jim Greene It was packed Sutton got on a chair
And led the crowd in My Old Ky Home
The rivalry was on!!
Have to along with you on this. Love beating UL's butt. We have beat them so much that is not much of a rival as it used to be. IU is a has been .
It’s true, IU has fallen and isn’t living up to tradition for quite some time, but as day is to night, basketball needs this rivalry to be renewed. Just my opinion.
Bobby Knight, Assembly Hall, walks over to scorer’s game due to some IU fans being unruly. Without being requested to do so,
Knight takes the gym’s PA microphone and says “People let’s behave yourselves, ... you don’t live in Kentucky, you live in Indiana for God’s sake!!”
I don't care if we ever play IU again because of the IU fans. I have read from more other school fans that they think IU fans are the worst in CBB. Let IU cry a river about playing us. As others have pointed out we don't need them but they need us. I had rather play WV or Virginia or some other schools.
What are you 12? That’s how rivalries work. Fans are supposed to hate each other. Sounds more like you crying a river.
Kentucky vs everyone. We are everyone’s Super Bowl. Our “biggest rival” shifts by era Bc its whomever is presenting the biggest threat to the throne (nationally or conference). That’s why you’ve seen Duke, UT, Louisville, IU, LSU, Arkansas.
but UL as far as traditional rival stuff goes just Bc instate.
but UL as far as traditional rival stuff goes just Bc instate.
No i am 75 years old and you need to respect your elders. I am sure your parents taught you that.
You can disagree with someone and still respect them. In fact, you can loathe someone and still have respect for them. Somehow our younger generation just can’t seem to grasp that concept!
When I was 18, I worked down in Louisville and much of S. Indiana. Many people call it “Kentuckiana”. I’ll say, it’s much different down there as opposed to E. Kentucky, as far as the UK/IU rivalry is concerned.
Don’t get me wrong, the UK/IU rivalry was always big here, but pales in comparison to the way it is down that way. I noticed that there were so many **** talking IU fans down that way, so it’s totally understandable. Just an observation I made.
Such disrespectful asswipes these days. To answer your question, I’m not so sure many of these fools were taught to respect their elders. Not even sure who that poster even is.
I tell everyone, chivalry in men such as my father and during his time and the generation before him, is a dying breed.
There was a time where men wore suits and their favorite hats to baseball games due to their respect of the game and homage to adhering to their elders upbringing. If I could be even half the man my father was, I’d consider myself decent and I try.
Today, even holding a door open for an elderly woman isn’t even considered common courtesy to our youths due to not being instilled with respect to those before them.
Take some geritol and go to bed. It’s a real rivalry and should be still going regardless of who is superior.
Good Lord, man. Stop being a clown. I’m not even sure which rivalry you’re referencing. If one team is far superior to the other, it’s not much of a rivalry.
Well, you did, and then proceeded to tell him to, “take some geritol and go to bed.” Didn’t seem to make a difference.
I am not your typical 75 year old as i can still kick most young punks butts. I just fight dirty.
Trust me you wouldn’t have to. Just showing you’re going to would send them back running to Mama. Softest generation in history. Generation Charmin.I am not your typical 75 year old as i can still kick most young punks butts. I just fight dirty.
You must be a bag biter. Figures.I am not your typical 75 year old as i can still kick most young punks butts. I just fight dirty.
Lol. I work with a bunch of baby’s in Kentucky. Yep charmin soft.
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Napoleon, don’t be jealous that I’ve been chatting online with babes all day!Keyboard cowboy.
Disagree with this playing any role, in any rivalry. A fierce rivalry such as UL/UK, is always gonna be just that---Fierce. Unles you are telling me you don't really care if UK loses to UL......?? I've always found this sort of take as being kinda of, well, meh. The UK/IU game never lost its luster. It was always a big game. And would be if played tomorrow. Regardless of how bad IU has been.Same with UL/UK.
I would rather beat UL than any other team. Kansas 2nd, Tenn. 3rd ! IU is no long relevant in my book. Do i love to beat them YES. But they are no longer a blue blood team in my book.