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Kentucky–Tennessee Rivalry
The Kentucky–Tennessee rivalry is a college sports rivalry between the University of Kentucky Wildcats and the University of Tennessee Volunteers. The passionate rivalry between these two Southeastern Conference (SEC) schools, located about apart, dates to their first college football game in 1893, and has continued across all sports, with the men's basketball series gaining particular attention in recent years. The football rivalry was once a trophy game known as the Battle for the Barrel, with the victors keeping a painted wooden beer barrel, one half each painted in Vol orange the other in Wildcat blue, until the next contest. The barrel tradition was mutually discontinued in 1998 following a fatal alcohol-related car crash involving two Kentucky football players. The rivalry is sometimes known as the Border Battle''. Football Basketball In contrast to the football series, Kentucky has generally dominated the basketball rivalry. The two teams first played in 1910 ...
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Kentucky Wildcats
The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky (UK), a founding member of the Southeastern Conference. The Kentucky Wildcats is the student body of the University of Kentucky. 30,473 students attend the university. Historically, the women's teams and athletes were referred to as the "Lady Kats", but all athletic squads adopted the "Wildcats" nickname in 1995. Collectively, the fans of the Kentucky Wildcats are often referred to as the Big Blue Nation. Their main and most intense rival is the University of Louisville. The Wildcats are composed of 19 varsity teams that compete nationally. Background The nickname "Wildcats" became synonymous with UK shortly after a 6–2 football road victory over Illinois on October 9, 1909. Commandant Philip W. Corbusier, then head of the military department at old State University, told a group of students in a chapel service following the game that the Kentucky football team had " ...
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SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The SEC men's basketball tournament is the conference tournament in basketball for the Southeastern Conference (SEC). It is a single-elimination tournament that involves all league schools (currently 14). Its seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, however the official conference championship is awarded to the team or teams with the best regular season record. Format With the abandonment of divisions in SEC men's basketball starting in 2011–12, the top four teams in the conference standings received first-round byes. Bracketing was identical to that of the SEC women's basketball tournament—note that SEC women's basketball has long been organized in a single league table without divisions. Since the SEC expanded to 14 schools with the arrival of Missouri and Texas A&M in 2012, the 2013 tournament was the first with a new format. Both men's and women's tournaments have the four ...
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2010 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 SEC men's basketball tournament was held March 11–14, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee at Bridgestone Arena. The first, quarterfinal, and semifinal rounds were televised by SEC Network and the semifinals and finals were broadcast nationwide on ABC, with the exception of the majority of South Carolina markets. The weekend games did not air in the market of the South Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia. ABC affiliate WOLO pre-empted the game and aired the 2010 ACC men's basketball tournament semifinal and final matches instead, per syndication contract with Raycom Sports Raycom Sports is an American producer of sports television programs. It is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and owned and operated by Gray Television. It was founded in 1979 by husband and wife, Rick and Dee Ray. In the 1980s, Raycom ..., with the current Raycom-WOLO contract continuing until the 2011 tournament. The games also did not air in the Greenville-Spartanburg area (also Asheville, N ...
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Atlanta, GA
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 living within the city limits, it is the eighth most populous city in the Southeast and 38th most populous city in the United States according to the 2020 U.S. census. It is the core of the much larger Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to more than 6.1 million people, making it the eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Situated among the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains at an elevation of just over above sea level, it features unique topography that includes rolling hills, lush greenery, and the most dense urban tree coverage of any major city in the United States. Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among severa ...
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2005 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2005 SEC men's basketball tournament took place from March 10–13, 2005 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Georgia Dome. The SEC Championship Game was televised by CBS. The top two teams in both the Eastern and Western Divisions receive byes in the first round, which were Kentucky, Alabama, LSU, and Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, a ... and played their second-round games on March 11, 2005. The winner of the tournament, Florida, received the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. This was Florida's first SEC tournament championship. Bracket Asterisk denotes game ended in overtime. References {{2005 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament navbox SEC men's basketball tournament - March 2005 sports events in the United States 2005 in sports ...
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1993 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1993 SEC men's basketball tournament took place from March 11–14, 1993 in downtown Lexington, Kentucky at Rupp Arena, the home court of the University of Kentucky Wildcats. The Kentucky Wildcats won the SEC Tournament championship to, and received the SEC’s automatic bid to the 1993 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament by defeating the LSU Tigers by a score of 82–65. Television broadcasts Tournament coverage was provided in its entirety by Jefferson Pilot Sports, in its sixth season with regional syndication rights to the SEC. Tom Hammond and former Ole Miss Rebels basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ... coach Ed Murphy provided play-by-play commentary. Bracket References {{1993 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament ...
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Birmingham, AL
Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% from the 2020 Census, making it Alabama's third-most populous city after Huntsville and Montgomery. The broader Birmingham metropolitan area had a 2020 population of 1,115,289, and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 50th-most populous in the United States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian regions of the nation. Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, Elyton. It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, and r ...
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1979 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1979 SEC men's basketball tournament took place in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex. This tournament marks the first SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament held since the event’s hiatus that started after the 1952 tournament. The Tennessee Volunteers won the tournament championship game, and received the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by beating the Kentucky Wildcats in a 75–69 overtime win on March 3, 1979. The tournament took place from February 28 to March 3, 1979.2014-2015 Southeaastern Conference Men's Basketball Media Guide, page 134 After the SEC tournament ended, Tennessee was ranked number 20 in the Associated Press polls. Television coverage of the championship game was produced by The C.D. Chesley Company, who syndicated the coverage of the game regionally over 30 television stations. C.D. Chesley was known as the pioneer in syndicated college basketball as he started production of Atlantic Coast Conference basket ...
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1952 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1952 SEC men's basketball tournament took place February 28–March 1, 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Jefferson County Armory. This tournament marks the final SEC Men's Basketball Tournament held until the event's 26-year hiatus ended prior to the 1979 tournament. The Kentucky Wildcats The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky (UK), a founding member of the Southeastern Conference. The Kentucky Wildcats is the student body of the University of Kentucky. 30,473 ... won the tournament championship game by beating , 44–43. Kentucky would go on to play in the 16-team 1952 NCAA tournament, but fell in the East Regional Final to St. John's. Bracket * = denotes overtime game References {{SEC men's basketball tournament navbox SEC men's basketball tournament 1951–52 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season Basketball in Kentucky SEC Basket Basketball competitions in Louisville, Ken ...
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1950 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1950 SEC men's basketball tournament took place March 2–4, 1950 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Jefferson County Armory. The Kentucky won the tournament championship game by beating the , 95–58. The Wildcats would play in the 12-team 1950 National Invitation Tournament The 1950 National Invitation Tournament was the 1950 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition. For the only time in history, the same school won both the NIT and NCAA tournaments as CCNY took both championships, beating Bradley i ..., losing to eventual champion CCNY in the second round. No SEC teams played in the 8-team 1950 NCAA tournament. Bracket * = denotes overtime game References {{SEC men's basketball tournament navbox SEC men's basketball tournament 1949–50 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season Basketball in Kentucky SEC Basket Basketball competitions in Louisville, Kentucky ...
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1949 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1949 SEC men's basketball tournament took place March 3–5, 1949 in Louisville, Kentucky at the Jefferson County Armory. The Kentucky Wildcats The Kentucky Wildcats are the men's and women's intercollegiate athletic squads of the University of Kentucky (UK), a founding member of the Southeastern Conference. The Kentucky Wildcats is the student body of the University of Kentucky. 30,473 ... won the tournament championship game by beating , 68–52. The Wildcats would go on to win the 8-team 1949 NCAA tournament. Bracket * = denotes overtime game References {{SEC men's basketball tournament navbox SEC men's basketball tournament 1948–49 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season Basketball in Kentucky SEC Basket Basketball competitions in Louisville, Kentucky ...
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Louisville, KY
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border. Named after King Louis XVI of France, Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. With nearby Falls of the Ohio as the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a system across 13 states. Today, the city is known as the home of boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken, the University of Louisville and its Cardinals, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six ''Fortune'' 500 companies: Humana, Kindred Healthcare, and Yum! Brands. Muhammad ...
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