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YouTube Gold: Duke-Kentucky 1978

We may have linked to this before and our apologies if so. Either way, here’s a very clean video of the 1978 Duke-Kentucky championship game. It’s a keeper.

A lot of people think the enmity between Duke and Kentucky started in 1992 but it was way earlier than that. Adolph Rupp was certainly not happy when Duke came into Lexington and snatched Jeff Mullins away and UK fans might have understandably preferred to have seen Duke lose to Texas Western in 1966 and thus carry the unhappy burden of being the segregated team that is most remembered (on the other hand though if Bob Verga had been healthy Duke probably would have matched up better with the Miners than Kentucky did.