Big Orange has been Kentucky's biggest problem in the SEC. Sure, Florida has been a pain during the last two decades. But no league opponent has a winning percentage over 30 against the Cats, other than the Vols. They've been especially dangerous in Knoxville, of course, where UK has barely managed a winning record (see below).
UK's overall record is currently 153-69 against UT (68.9%). 69 wins is the most any team has against UK (followed by 47 for Vandy, 38 for Florida and 37 for Alabama). The 222 meetings are easily the most in any series UK has played (followed by 189 meetings with Vandy and 149 with Georgia).
Let's check out the breakdown.
Home games: 90-16 (84.9%)
Rupp Arena: 36-4 (90%) - only losses were in 1977, 1979, 1999 and 2006
Memorial Coliseum: 22-4 (84.6%) - losses were in 1960, 1963, 1967 and 1976
Alumni Gym: 23-2 (92%) - losses were in 1927 and 1939
Buell Armory Gym: 5-5 (50%) - losses were in 1917 (twice), 1920 (twice) and 1923
Woodland Auditorium: 4-1 (80%) - loss was in 1916
Road games: 52-49 (51.5%)
Thompson-Boling Arena: 16-13 (55.2%) - Games since 1988
Stokely Center: 5-16 (23.8%) - This was the ultimate house of horrors for UK basketball. From 1967 through 1987 (late Rupp years, Hall and then Sutton), the Cats just couldn't do anything in Knoxville. There were even two separate five-game road losing streaks in the series (1973-77 and 1979-83).
UT Armory Fieldhouse: 5-3 (62.5%) - Games between 1959 and 1966
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium: 17-7 (70.8%) - Games between 1933 and 1958
Jefferson Hall: 6-4 (60%) - Games between 1923 and 1932
Knoxville Central YMCA: 3-6 (33.3%) - Games between 1915 and 1920
Neutral sites: 11-4 (73.3%)
Bridgestone Arena (Nashville): 1-0 (100%) - 2010 SEC Tournament
Georgia Dome: 1-0 (100%) - 2005 SEC Tournament
Rupp Arena: 1-0 (100%) - 1993 SEC Tournament
Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center: 0-1 (0%) - 1979 SEC Tournament Championship
Jefferson County Armory (Louisville): 5-2 (71.4%) - lost 1941 and 1943 SEC Tournament Championships...won 1945 and 1950 SEC Tournament Championships...also won SEC Tournament games in 1948, 1949 and 1952
Alumni Memorial Gymnasium (Knoxville): 3-1 (75%) - lost in 1936 SEC Tournament...won 1937 SEC Tournament Championship...won 1939 SEC Tournament Championship...won in 1940 SEC Tournament
By type of game:
Regular season SEC home games: 73-9
Regular season SEC road games: 43-39
Regular season SEC neutral games: 0-0
Regular season SEC games overall: 116-48
Regular season non-SEC home games: 1-0 (1961 UKIT)
Regular season pre-SEC home games: 16-7
Regular season pre-SEC road games: 9-10
SEC Tournament: 11-4
By coach:
John Calipari (2010-present): 11-4 (7-0 at home, 3-4 in Knoxville, 1-0 SECT)
Billy Gillispie (2008-09): 3-1 (2-0 at home, 1-1 in Knoxville)
Tubby Smith (1998-2007): 15-6 (8-2 at home, 6-4 in Knoxville, 1-0 in SECT)
Rick Pitino (1990-97): 14-3 (8-0 at home, 5-3 in Knoxville, 1-0 in SECT)
Eddie Sutton (1986-89): 6-2 (4-0 at home, 2-2 in Knoxville)
Joe B. Hall (1973-85): 11-16 (10-3 at home, 1-12 in Knoxville, 0-1 in SECT)
Adolph Rupp (1931-72): 72-20 (37-4 at home, 27-13 in Knoxville, 8-3 in SECT)
John Mauer (1928-1930): 5-1 (3-0 at home, 2-1 in Knoxville)
Basil Hayden (1927): 0-2 (0-1 at home, 0-1 in Knoxville)
Ray Eklund (1926): 2-0 (1-0 at home, 1-0 in Knoxville)
Clarence Applegran (1925): 2-0 (1-0 at home, 1-0 in Knoxville)
George Buchheit (1920-24): 1-6 (0-3 at home, 1-3 in Knoxville)
Andrew Gill (1919): 1-1 (1-0 at home, 0-1 in Knoxville)
Stanley Boles (1918): 4-0 (2-0 at home, 2-0 in Knoxville)
William Tuttle (1917): 0-4 (0-2 at home, 0-2 in Knoxville)
James Park (1916): 0-1 (at home)
Alpha Brumage (1914-15): 4-2 (4-0 at home, 0-2 in Knoxville)
Edwin Sweetland (1910-12): 2-0 (at home)
By opposing coach:
Rick Barnes: 2-2 against UK (Calipari)
Cuonzo Martin: 1-4 against UK (Calipari)
Bruce Pearl: 4-9 against UK (2-2 vs. Tubby, 1-3 vs. Billy G, 1-4 vs. Cal)
Buzz Peterson: 1-8 against UK (Tubby)
Jerry Green: 3-5 against UK (Tubby)
Kevin O'Neill: 0-6 against UK (Pitino)
Wade Houston: 3-8 against UK (Pitino)
Don DeVoe: 11-12 against UK (2-6 vs. Sutton, 9-6 vs. Hall)
Cliff Wettig: 0-2 against UK (Hall)
Ray Mears: 15-15 against UK (7-3 vs. Hall, 8-12 vs. Rupp)
John Sines: 1-6 against UK (Rupp)
Emmett Lowery: 1-25 against UK (Rupp)
John Mauer: 7-15 against UK (Rupp)
Blair Gullion: 3-5 against UK (Rupp)
W.H. Britton: 3-15 against UK (0-10 vs. Rupp, 1-5 vs. Mauer, 2-0 vs. Hayden)
M. Beal Banks: 3-4 against UK (0-2 vs. Eklund, 0-2 vs. Applegran, 3-0 vs. Buchheit)
John Bender: 7-1 against UK (3-1 vs. Buchheit, 4-0 vs. Tuttle)
R.H. Fitzgerald: 1-5 against UK (0-4 vs. Boles, 1-1 vs. Gill)
Zora Clevenger: 3-5 against UK (1-0 vs. Park, 2-4 vs. Brumage, 0-1 vs. Sweetland)
Solon Kipp: 0-1 against UK (Sweetland)
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