As Mark Pope’s third-year Kentucky squad races to prepare for the 2026-27 season, the Big Blue Nation have little to do in that regard but wait around. With Milan Momcilovic’s potentially final addition, the recruiting buzz (for the current class, at least) has ground to halt. Coming into replace it for the summer is, once again, The Basketball Tournament (TBT).
Over the past few years, Kentucky fans have grown happily accustomed to putting aside their worries for the fall for a while in favor of supporting a mixed and matched group of blue and white alumni. But these former Wildcats coming together to compete for a cash prize aren’t the only ones in the state to do so, unfortunately.
Louisville has a squad in the same league, and many fans on either side of the fence will remember a vitriolic matchup between the two taking place two years ago. After a season away from their renewed rivalry, both La Familia and The Ville will clash once more for a three-game series beginning in July…