Random YouTube Magic: Kentucky and Louisville to Meet for the First Time in 24 Years

It was the 1983 NCAA Tournament. Most think of the improbable National Championship of Jim Valvano's N.C. State Wolfpack over Houston. In the Commonwealth of Kentucky, however, there was something else. Louisville and Kentucky would meet in the Mideast Regional Final. The first time the two teams had met since 1959.

I shudder to think what kind of media saturation such an event would cause today. Even then, however, CBS wasn't going to skip this storyline. It was an event that was called, "the Dream Game."

Marvel at the fact that Louisville Coach Denny Crum's hair was the same then as it remains to this day. Witness with wonder as John Tesh (yes, that John Tesh) makes Kentucky Coach Joe B. Hall squirm and ask the cameras be turned off simply by asking him why the two teams hadn't played in the past 24 years.


(Hat tip to Card Chronicle.)