Kentucky has reportedly backed out of a 2016 game that was proposed against UTEP.
The game, which was going to be played at Maryland, would have been the 50th anniversary season of the NCAA championship game between UK and the school formerly known as Texas Western.
UTEP head coach Tim Floyd is not happy about the development.
Check out his comments:
The 2016 game would have been the 50th anniversary season of the NCAA championship game between UK and the school formerly known as Texas Western. Texas Western won the title that year at Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland, starting five black players for the first time in NCAA championship history against an all-white UK lineup coached by Adolph Rupp. The Miners won the game, 72-65.
“Just backed out, said that there were a lot of people up there that didn’t want the game to be played, for whatever reason, so I don’t want to throw them completely under the bus, but that’s ok, we’ll just stay with a 1-0 record against the Kentucky Wildcats in college basketball. If they never want to play again and act like the game never happened, for the reasons why it occurred are significant, then we’ll never play again,” said Floyd.
