I think we glanced over this, likely in the comments, but I’m trying to think of a non-conference game that was or will be more anticipated than this one. I guess UCLA in 2007 was the last one on a similar scale, but I have to think this trumps that. Then we’re talking, what, UNLV? That’s 1983! Heck, where might this be on the list of home games, whether in conference play or outside of it?

Heady stuff, this is. You know it. I know it. Bob Huggins and John Calipari know it.

“Bob Huggins heard before I did and he was so happy,” Calipari told The Cats’ Pause during the SEC spring meeting in Sandestin.

Then offering his best impersonation of the Mountaineers coach, Calipari said, “He called me and said, ’You know you’re playing in Morgantown this year and I couldn’t be happier. I’m doing backflips.’

“I told Bob, ‘I’m trying to get that changed. Has it been announced?’ He said, ‘It’s done, don’t you try to change it. I gotta get off the phone.’”

Fortunately, we’ve got a long time before Jan. 27.