Kentucky Basketball announces six-year series with Gonzaga

Two of the top programs in college basketball just agreed to a massive deal to play each other this season and each of the next five. Kentucky and Gonzaga announced a six-year series with one another on Thursday that will take place in five different locations.

The Wildcats and Bulldogs already agreed to a two-game series, with Kentucky heading to Spokane to play in the Spokane Arena this year (not the actual home arena for Gonzaga), then hosting the Zags in Rupp Arena next year. Now, the series has been extended another four years in addition to the initial two, with the two teams set to play at least once in each team’s home stadium with other matchups taking place in various venues.

Take a look at the locations for each of the six games:

2022 – Spokane Arena
2023 – Rupp Arena
2024 – Seattle
2025 – Nashville
2026 – Rupp Arena
2027 – McCarthey Athletic Center (Gonzaga’s home arena)

So neutral site games in Spokane, Nashville and Seattle, two home games for Kentucky in Rupp Arena, and then the final game in “The Kennel” at McCarthy Athletic Center, the 6,000-seat arena that the Zags play their home games in.

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“I am so excited that we have finalized this series,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said of the massive series signed between the two schools. “[Gonzaga coach] Mark Few is a great friend and what he has done at Gonzaga to build them into one of the premier programs in our sport is incredible. The mindset I have when I put together our schedule here at Kentucky is that we want to always challenge ourselves by competing with the best teams we can find and generate some marquee home games for the best fans in the country. We have done that with Gonzaga and I look forward to competing with them the next six seasons.”