Indiana just beat the crap outta Chattanooga 99-74 & Kentucky just destroyed Stony Brook 85-57.

“There has been a lot of great history with Indiana and Kentucky over the years and we’ve been privileged to be a part of it,” Indiana coach Tom Crean said Thursday. “There’s some — there’s been a lot of tremendous games. Obviously it’s a rivalry because of the history of it, because of the proximity of the two states, but because the two basketball teams have been good when it’s been at its best. So I would say that’s the biggest thing.”

The two programs have not faced one another since 2012. Four long years

“I didn’t want to play home-and-home,” Kentucky’s John Calipari said. “I told them we would play two years in Indianapolis if you want. I didn’t want to play home-and-home. I didn’t want to go there, and they didn’t want to have to come to us. So that ended the series.”

On many levels, Kentucky and Indiana are really better than their slot seeds, #4 and #5 , Ken Pomeroy’s high rankings have Kentucky as the nation’s seventh-best team and Indiana ranked 14th. Indiana won the Big Ten outright.

They have 13 national titles between them, and a history, until it was cut short, that ran from 1924 to 2012.