Question for all of my college basketball fans: is it really a home-and-home series if one team doesn’t actually get to play at home? Well, thanks to John Calipari, we’re about to stretch the terminology.
The upcoming home-and-home between Kentucky and Gonzaga, which begins during the 2022-23 college basketball season, will see the Zags host the Wildcats on November 20.
But the game won’t be held at McCarthy Athletic Center, Gonzaga’s 6,000-seat, on-campus arena otherwise known as “The Kennel”. Instead, the November matchup between national championship contenders will be held at the 13,000-seat Spokane Arena.
For the lamest of reasons.
I imagine there will be some #BBN and some Gonzaga fans too who will sneak in the game this year because there’s more seats!
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) August 4, 2022
This is great for both schools and I can’t wait to get the series started. Maybe we make this four years? 👀
— John Calipari (@UKCoachCalipari) August 4, 2022
So it appears as though Coach Cal does not want the home team Gonzaga Bulldogs to have…a home-court advantage.
Strange.
No. 5 Texas didn’t have any complaints about playing at The Kennel last year. Neither did Texas A&M in 2018 or No. 25 Creighton the year before that. Then again, all of those teams lost to the Zags so maybe they should’ve thrown a fit, too.
Anyways, we’re a little more than three months away from the game, so perhaps some things change along the way. Everyone who isn’t a Kentucky fan would much rather see the school try to get the job done at The Kennel, one of college basketball’s toughest places to play and an amazing environment.
Surely this won’t provide any extra motivation for the fans to get even rowdier in Spokane in the meantime.
Coach Cal is scared of us. That’s alright. We will see you in the Spokane Arena and now you have given us a lil extra motivation :) See you soon sweetheart 😈 #catsarescaredofthekennel
— Gonzaga Kennel Club (@ZagKennelClub) August 4, 2022
