Yesterday, pairings were announced for this year’s Big 12/SEC Challenge and for the first time since the concrete was still settling at the now 47-year-old WVU Coliseum, the Kentucky Wildcats are returning to Morgantown.
It’s been a long, long time coming.
Kentucky has only made two prior appearances in Morgantown, both coming under legendary coach Adolph Rupp spanning a 29-year period.
The first happened on January 11, 1941, a little more than a month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor when Dyke Raese’s band of Mountaineers topped a pretty good Kentucky squad 56-43 at the old Field House.