Throughout March Sadness, KSR will be bringing you highlights of Kentucky’s NCAA Tournament games over the past 30 years. Today, we will relive the Thursday Sweet 16 games.
1992: No. 2 Kentucky 87, No. 3 UMass 77
Thursday, March 26, 1992
Rick Pitino and the Unforgettables beat John Calipari’s UMass Minutemen in the Sweet 16 to set up the greatest college basketball game of all time. The Cats jumped out to a 21-point lead early on, but UMass stormed back to cut that lead to two with less than six minutes left. From there, John Calipari drew a technical from a ref all the way across the floor (you can see it below at the 1:21:45 mark), which prompted an 11-2 run by Kentucky to put the game out of reach.