When the Florida Gators men’s basketball team takes the floor at Rupp Arena to face the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday (2 p.m, CBS or CBSSports.com), they will do so with a truly rare opportunity: The chance to sweep one of college basketball’s greatest programs.
Florida has done that just a handful of times in its history. The Gators beat Kentucky twice in the 1966-67 season — the year after an all-white Kentucky team’s infamous NCAA Tournament final loss to an all-black Texas Western lineup, and a year in which Kentucky lost Pat Riley to injury and finished 13-13 — and again in 1987-88, then did so three times prior to making the Final Four under Billy Donovan, in 2005-06, 2006-07, and 2013-14.