Rick Pitino, the pope and a Japanese bath house sounds like the setup for a good joke. But in this case, all three are part of the entertaining history of Kentucky basketball on foreign trips.
So is a marriage at the Vatican and a severe earthquake.
To say the least, Kentucky’s previous foreign trips have been eventful. With UK going to the Bahamas early next month, here are some highlights of times when the Big Blue Nation went international.
Heave-ho, Pitino
For a week in August of 1995, Kentucky basketball went to Italy.