There's A Cardinal Rule In Kentucky

Curry Kirkpatrick

April 04, 1983

Was it the 24-year gap between games that did it? Or the fussin' and feud-in' proximity of neighbors who live barely 75 miles apart, as the bluegrass grows? Or the importance of the occasion—the finals of the Mideast Regional, from which only the winner would have a chance at the national championship? Surely it was all these things and more that lifted Louisville's 80-68 overtime victory over Kentucky last Saturday from the merely extraordinary to a game that people will remember as long as the ball remains round.