February 8, 1964 is when it happened.
The crowd was jammed into Memorial Coliseum. When the number was totaled up it would be 12,600 people waiting to watch the Mississippi Rebels face Adolph Rupp’s Kentucky Wildcats. Rupp had just won his 700th career victory earlier on the week against Georgia on the road in Athens. Now the Cats were back home and Rupp was aiming for number 701.
The game had some extra hype because it featured the two best scorers in the SEC going head to head. UK’s Cotton Nash (26.9 ppg) and Mississippi’s Don Kessinger (25.