Last season, the Indiana Hoosiers pulverized the Kentucky Wildcats at home, and this year UK returned the favor. In fact, this non-conference rivalry hasn't meant a lot in quite some time. Sure, there was a Mike Davis-running-on-the-court-like-a-mad-fool with some Dane-Fife-ties-the-game-with-a-three instances, but for the most part this annual game has lacked drama or national interest in recent memory.
This season, the Wildcats are looking to improve in their second year under Billy Gillispie, and the Hoosiers are in a serious transition as Tom Crean attempts to pick up the scraps left by Kelvin Sampson's sabotage of the once-mighty Hoosier program.
As Indiana failed to score a single point for about the first seven minutes yesterday, and Kentucky eventually opened up a ridiculous 32-6 lead, it was evident just how unimportant this game presently is. Give it time.
Kentucky is going to start putting things together this year under Gillispie, and by next year they'll return to the national stage. For the Hoosiers, they'll need a bit more time, but a return to national prominence by 2011 is definitely in the cards.
So when the teams tip off in December of 2011, this game will once again be the marquee matchup CBS wants to air.
Until then, it's simply just a game of past powers who are presently not very important on the national stage.
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Billy GillEspie? I was expecting to see Tom CreaM.
What's even funnier funny is that this is an AOL FanHouse habit: http://ncaabasketball.fanhouse.com/tag/BillyGillespie/
What's even funnier than "even funnier funny"? I swear, this blog makes writing more dumb.