Even amid the turmoil that embroiled the Kentucky Wildcats at the end of the John Calipari era in Lexington, Big Blue Nation still held the ever-important in-state bragging rights over the rival Louisville Cardinals. On Saturday, however, Pat Kelsey and the Cards were trying to flip that on its head as they visited Rupp Arena to take on Mark Pope’s group.
The action was quite entertaining throughout as Louisville seemingly kept finding ways to fight back every time that Kentucky started to pull away. So right before the final five minutes of play in a game that was also quite physical, it’s no surprise that things got heated and a bit chippy.
Perhaps a bit too much so and in nearly a catastrophic type of way…