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Kentucky, Southern grateful for "eye-opening" and "uncomfortable" Unity Series

Jack Pilgrim

Southern University. The University of Kentucky and Southern University men’s basketball teams toured the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati as a part of the Unity Series. Photos by Chet White | UK Athletics

Kentucky’s new Unity Series is about more than the game of basketball. John Calipari and the Wildcats matched up against Sean Woods’ Southern Jaguars to open the inaugural event on Tuesday, a game in which the former won 76-64. At the end of the day, though, the score, stats and individual standouts were relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things — and that’s by design.