Report: Date, Location Set for 2022-23 Louisville-Kentucky Men’s Basketball Matchup

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Following a season the place the annual Battle of the Bluegrass between the Louisville and Kentucky males’s basketball packages needed to be shelved, the small print for the 2022-23 iteration of the rivalry showdown have reportedly been hammered out.

The Cardinals will journey to Rupp Area to face the Wildcats on Tuesday, Dec. 31, based on CBS Sports activities school basketball insider Jon Rothstein. A tip-off time and tv designation weren’t reported.

It is going to the primary time in 5 years that the Battle of the Bluegrass is not going to be held on a Saturday, and the primary time since 2011 that it will likely be held on New 12 months’s Eve. Louisville gained 62-59 of their earlier assembly towards Kentucky on Dec. 26, 2020 on the KFC Yum! Heart.

Final season, the annual rivalry matchup had to be postponed simply two days earlier than their scheduled Dec. 22 tipoff because of “a number of constructive COVID-19 assessments amongst people throughout the [Louisville] program.” Crew actions had been in a position to be resumed on Dec. 26, however the sport was by no means rescheduled.

As a result of this sport was by no means performed, there have been some questions concerning if the following Louisville-Kentucky sport would honor the home-and-home rotation and happen on the KFC Yum! Heart, or be performed at Rupp Area.

The Cardinals’ non-conference schedule for the 2022-23 season is beginning to take form. They are going to host each Bellarmine and Western Kentucky, in addition to journey to Kentucky. Louisville may also play three video games in Hawaii as a part of the Maui Invitational, in addition to a yet-to-be-announced opponent within the Huge Ten-ACC Problem.

A beforehand reported matchup towards Oklahoma State within the Armed Forces Basic is not going to be happening.

Final season, Louisville suffered their first shedding marketing campaign in over 20 years, going 13-19 and mutually separating with head coach Chris Mack halfway by means of the season. The Cardinals employed Kenny Payne, a former nationwide champion with Louisville as a participant and longtime assistant coach at Kentucky, as their subsequent head coach again on Mar. 18.

(Photograph of David Johnson: Scott Utterback – Louisville Courier-Journal/USA TODAY Sports activities)

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