Kentucky vs. West Virginia

Kentucky basketball will play at West Virginia on Saturday, January 27, 2018.Find game time, TV channel and how to watch online below.For the longest time, Bob Huggins had John Calipari’s number.While they were coaching at Cincinnati and Memphis, respectively, Huggins built up a 5-0 lead on his good friend in head-to-head meetings.Then in 2002, Huggins had a heart attack and, legend has it, Calipari’s cousin happened to be working in the ambulance that transported him to the hospital.“Coach, don’t worry,” Huggins remembers the cousin saying, “I’m not going to let you die until Cal beats you at least once.”Calipari is 3-3 against Huggins since then — and 2-1 as UK’s coach — but his most recent loss is still a gut punch for Big Blue Nation: Huggins and the Mountaineers took out John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and arguably the most talented Cats of the Calipari era in the 2010 Elite Eight.There has been a measure of revenge since then.Kentucky eliminated WVU in the second round on the way to the 2011 Final Four and obliterated Huggins and Co.(by 39 points) in the 2015 Sweet 16 to improve to 37-0 — after a foolish freshman named Daxter Miles trash-talked the Cats.Miles is now a senior starter and 1,000-point scorer for the Mountaineers, as is reigning Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year Jevon Carter, who also played in the 2015 beatdown.This time, with Kentucky and ESPN’s College GameDay coming to Morgantown and all eyes on the marquee matchup of the Big 12-SEC Challenge, Huggins has a chance to bite back in what has become a budding (but friendly) rivalry.He and his pal Cal broke bread

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