The rumors are true, Big Blue Nation. Kentucky and Indiana are renewing their storied basketball rivalry.
Today at SEC Basketball Media Day in Birmingham, John Calipari confirmed recent reports of negotiations to revive the annual Kentucky-Indiana series. Calipari even revealed the series’ restart date is a couple of years away in 2025-26.
“We’ve agreed in principle that we’ll be playing them,” Calipari told the Herald-Leader’s Ben Roberts and a room full of reporters. “It’ll start in 2025-26. But it’s at the administrative level now, so all of the details will be worked out.”
The timeline matches what Jon Rothstein reported last week, that the two schools are in “advanced discussions” to play a multi-year series with games on both college campuses and at neutral sites.