Tagged: Kentucky Wildcats

The Louisville Cardinals men's basketball team on Saturday defeated the Kentucky Wildcats the first time since 2009 in a game that featured the return of center Gorgui Dieng, who was sidelined in November with a wrist injury.

The Louisville Cardinals and Kentucky Wildcats square off tomorrow in their annual regular season basketball battle.

U of L has lost four straight to the Wildcats, including their Final Four matchup back in March in New Orleans, but the Cardinals are back this season with an experienced team and bring a 11-1 record and No. 4 ranking to the game.

It will also mark the return of Cards’ center Gorgui Dieng the lineup. He’s missed the last seven games with a broken hand.

So U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is unpopular but still beats all Democratic rivals in hypothetical 2014 re-election matchups, according to data from Public Policy Polling.

That's important. But who is better liked, John Calipari or Rick Pitino? Which NFL team do Kentuckians prefer, anyway? PPP asked survey respondents these question, too, and a handful of other miscellaneous queries.

When the Kentucky Wildcats won the 2012 NCAA men's basketball championship, UK students and fans flooded the streets of Lexington -- screaming, celebrating and burning stuff. But no college hoops observer needed such a revelruos display to know that Wildcats fans are among the most obsessive in sports. 

Excerpted from the book 100 Things Wildcats Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, by Ryan Clark and Joe Cox.