Kentucky coach John Calipari confirmed at SEC media day the two schools have agreed 'in principle' to restart their annual regular-season series.
For more than a decade, the two sides have been at loggerheads over getting their once-storied series back on the annual schedule. A series which ran uninterrupted from 1969 through 2011 went dormant when it was not renewed following Indiana's 73-72 last-second win against the Wildcats in Bloomington on Dec. 10 of that year.
Unless the Hoosiers and Wildcats are drawn together again in the postseason between now and 2025, the layoff between games will reach nine years, and the regular-season stoppage in the rivalry will have crossed 14 years. At issue when Indiana and Kentucky entered their ongoing cold war last decade was, among other things, game location. IU preferred to keep the game on the two teams' campuses, where it was held on a rotating basis for the last six years before it shut down. Kentucky wanted a return to neutral sites, which had been commonplace in a series that rotated for nearly two decades between the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis and Freedom Hall in Louisville.
The closest we came to seeing IU-Kentucky back on the annual schedule before this would've been in the CBS Sports Classic. Proposed as an annual series involving the four programs with at least five Division I men's basketball national championships, the CBS Sports Classic would have pitted IU, Kentucky, UCLA and UNC against one another on a rotating bases across three-year cycles, with games held at neutral venues across the country.
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