\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRupp Arena will be buzzing with Kentucky basketball fans on Friday as the No. 9 Wildcats host No. 1 Purdue in an exhibition game.The Top 10 matchup between the Wildcats and Boilermakers will tip off at 6 p.m. and air on the SEC Network.Both Kentucky and Purdue head into the 2025-25 season with national championship dreams. They were both eliminated in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA Tournament.Kentucky returns key pieces from last year’s squad like Otega Oweh and Brandon Garrison, and they’ve added a number of promising transfer players and incoming freshmen. UK is the second highest ranked SEC team heading into the season, only behind reigning national champions No. 3 Florida.Kentucky’s first regular season is on Nov. 4, when the Wildcats host Nicholls.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Rupp Arena will be buzzing with Kentucky basketball fans on Friday as the No. 9 Wildcats host No. 1 Purdue in an exhibition game.<\/p>\n
The Top 10 matchup between the Wildcats and Boilermakers will tip off at 6 p.m. and air on the SEC Network.<\/p>\n
Both Kentucky and Purdue head into the 2025-25 season with national championship dreams. They were both eliminated in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
Kentucky returns key pieces from last year’s squad like Otega Oweh and Brandon Garrison, and they’ve added a number of promising transfer players and incoming freshmen. <\/p>\n
UK is the second highest ranked SEC team heading into the season, only behind reigning national champions No. 3 Florida.<\/p>\n
Kentucky’s first regular season is on Nov. 4, when the Wildcats host Nicholls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rupp Arena will be buzzing with Kentucky basketball fans on Friday as the No. 9 Wildcats host No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-242490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}