No. 1 Kentucky paid Evansville $90,000 for a tune-up game and lost in one of college basketball's biggest upsets in recent memory

9:56am PST - November 13th, 2019    kentucky basketball - Business Insider

Just one day after being tabbed the No. 1 team in America, the Kentucky Wildcats suffered a brutal 67-64 loss to the Evansville Purple Aces at Rupp Arena. As if to add insult to injury, Kentucky paid $90,000 for the mid-major program to travel to Lexington fo…