Tonight will be Jerry Stackhouse’s first game vs. Kentucky as Vanderbilt’s head coach, but he’s already got a losing record in Rupp Arena.
The former North Carolina star’s final win as a Tar Heel came against the Cats in the 1995 Elite Eight, but Stackhouse also participated in the Alumni Game between the two programs at Rupp in 2015. Kentucky’s all-star squad of DeMarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe, Terrence Jones, Karl Towns, Willie Cauley-Stein, the Harrison Twins and others beat Stackhouse, Harrison Barnes, Shammond Williams, James Michael McAdoo and other North Carolina alums 122-115 that day, helping raise over $1.