Kentucky and West Virginia, Kentucky. I wonder if the Hatfields and McCoys will take shots at each other before during and after. Yeah, I had to do it.
Bob Huggins is 8-2 all time against Calapari.
January 7, 1993:
Cincinnati 64, UMass 53
January 27, 1994:
Cincinnati 76, UMass74
February 15, 2001:
Cincinnati 66, Memphis 65
March 9, 2001:
Cincinnati 89, Memphis 79
March 3, 2002:
Cincinnati 80, Memphis 75 (OT)
March 1, 2003: Memphis 67, Cincinnati 48
March 6, 2004:
Cincinnati 83, Memphis 79
March 5, 2005:
Cincinnati 62, Memphis 60
March 27, 2010:
West Virginia 73, Kentucky 66
March 19, 2011: Kentucky 71, West Virginia 63
Here's a funny Huggins/Calapari story:
Calapari grew up in a suburb of Pittsburgh called Moon Township. It's where Robert Morris University is (they were a 16 seed), and it's also where the Pittsburgh airport is.
In 2002 Huggins was in town scouting a high school player, and suffered a heart attack at the airport. As the Moon Township paramedics were taking him to the hospital, Huggins said to the paramedic "please don't let me die".
The paramedic said to Huggins: "I'm John Calapari's cousin, and I'm not going to let you die until Cal beats you at least once" *
*at the time, Huggins was 5-0 all time against Calapari.
True story.
