WKU to Rupp Arena
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What’s odd about your post is I have almost the entirely opposite experience on this. My mom and brother graduated from Murray and many friends too.
Mark Pope is going to make UK fans very proud to have him as head coach at UK.
We beat them in Champaign too earlier in that season.
I do know there’s a lot of those fans as well. I always root for the in state teams besides Louisville but I’m not what you’d call a fan of any of those schools.
I am a UK fan first and foremost, but I went to Murray. My sister graduated from their RN program. My daughter graduated from their OSHA program several years ago and was offered numerous well paying jobs by major insurance companies. She said their OSHA program was rated second only behind Penn State nationally.
They were there just a few years ago after Louisville faked Covid.
I live in the BG area always been both WKU and Ky fan good to see they are playing each other.
They werent too bad until the Ja Morant year; then they thought they were a major program.
A lot of Western fans have always had that attitude bc they have a little more historical success. Many are anti UK and think they are the 3rd major program in the state..or pull for UL a little on the side.
Idk if it’s something about the Western Ky region being 5+ hours from Lexington or what but there does seem to be a slight disconnect out that way that you don’t see in central or East KY. Those regions know that EKU/Morehead/NKU etc are great localish schools but not national brands and they are all UK fans first and foremost
Lol. No. Everyone is a UK fan out here. WKU/Murray only fans are outliers. Most everyone is either UK only or they cheer for UK first and their ''local'' teams 2nd. UK was always the school to cheer for because it's the state's flagship school. The only disconnect here is we're more connected to TN. So you have some TN fans here.
Was that the year that there was a blizzard and very few were able to make it to the game that day? I was actually at the Rupp game in the NCAA tournament that year.
That was Western's greatest team ever. UK had a subpar team that season.
Tom Payne was a soph and he got eaten alive by Jim McDaniels, who may have
the best center to come out of this state.
Yeah. I can’t remember the attendance but IIRC they actually got some high school refs from the crowd because one or more of the scheduled refs couldn’t get there.
Was before my time (I was 2), but McDaniels was from my hometown just 30min from Bowling Green. He came to our high school (the city and county HS’s consolidated later in the 70’s) when I was a JR in mid-80’s and talked to my chemistry class. Unfortunate how his pro career went.
Not even close to reality, you just have something in you that hates Murray. Just plain silliness.
Western didn't cheat. McDaniels signed with an agent before the tournament was over. They got to the final four by beating Jacksonville and some cat named Artis Gilmore.
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100% agree with you, plus I graduated from MSU myself, as did my wife!
We had a great experience there!
The tournament game back in 1986 was pretty cool. WKU was ranked coming into the game, Tellis Frank was a first round draft choice, Kannard Johnson was taken in the second and Clem Haskins was still “good” Clem Haskins at that point.
Both correct. Blackmon hit a jumper from the elbow at the buzzer for the win
Yea that’s what it is. I just lay in bed at night hating Murray. Eats me alive. Which I strange because I always pulled for them as a side team because they’re close to my hometown area and some of my family went there. I almost went there for undergrad to play for them too. So my hatred for them is weird and just sprung up from the nothing. They’re a program that challenges Kentucky for greatness so I guess maybe it’s natural. You’re a pretty smart guy how’d you figure all that out my man?
I had an interaction with a group of Murray fans that are alumns and several who were current students. They talked more sht about Kentucky than a Tennessee fan. And it wasn’t just a few, this was a group of Murray fans who actually follow sports. So I assume it’s not just them. I later asked some of my family about it and was told there are quite a lot of Murray St fans that hate UK. I assume most people from Murray are UK people of course, but they have at minimum a large segment of their fanbase that hates Kentucky and sees us as some kind of side kick in the state to them. So I do not root for that sht. If you need any further help let me know.
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Yeah, I was there. WKU beat Nebraska to play UK the second game. Tellis and Kannard were great players, but UK had Kenny Walker.
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Walker all but owned college basketball that season. He wore goggles that year after getting poked in the eye by St John’s player the previous March? Without looking, that UK roster against WKU would have included Walker, Bennett, Blackmon, Davender, Master Blaster and Jenkins?
Yep, Sparks was a Freshman on that Western team that beat UK in 2001.
Patrick Sparks absolutely lit us up! Him and that 7 footer. That was the opening game of the Team Turmoil season! Ugh!
I would rather have home and home against power 5 teams, bring in the smaller teams as our warm up games, only play tourney games in neutral sites. No reason to not go to UNC / DUKE / Indiana / Kansas / UCLA and so forth. Cal took away any good games from home except the Ville and the rest was scheduling. Cal hated having to do the SEC/BIG12 and now SEC/ACC challenge. I was surprised he did the Gonzaga series, lost 2 and gone.
The 2 challenge games we do each year right now should be rotated between all 4 schools home floor. That way each 4 years the teams home town get the extra $$$ to local business. Or they need to end and the UKIT should come back with it being a true tourney. 4 or 8 teams, all big mid major or power 5 teams. Something like
Kentucky vs WKU Rupp
Louisville vs EKU Yum
Kansas vs Wichita State Rupp
Indiana vs Indiana State Yum
2 yums winners play day 2 / 2 yum losers play day 2
2 rupps winners play day 2 / 2 Rupp Losers play day 2
Then alternate the Championship and / 3vs4 game each year (one year Rupp / one year Yum).
Make it a power 5 from a state with smaller but good program for the first 4 games.
Should get some good games.
I haven't really met any WKU fans that I would describe as being a prick. Most seem to also rock UK.