Kentucky needed a win in the worst way. What they delivered against Indiana was anything but pretty. In the words of head coach Mark Pope it was “gross, beautiful” basketball at its finest. But for a program searching for some stability, it absolutely counted.
And here’s the wild part: the whole country watched it happen.
‘Gross, beautiful’ basketball America still had to watch the Cats and Hoosiers
ESPN announced that Kentucky–Indiana was its most-watched college basketball game so far this season and its most-watched December college hoops telecast in the last five years, pulling in roughly 2 million viewers.