U of L-UK basketball tip time announced

Information for two University of Louisville basketball games this upcoming season came out on Monday, including a game time for the annual U of L-Kentucky game.

The in-state rivalry will tip off at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27, at the KFC Yum! Center. U of L and UK's game will be carried by ESPN2 in light of the network's college football bowl-game schedule taht day.

The ACC on Monday also announced that the Cards have a primetime "Big Monday" matchup at Georgia Tech on Feb. 23. The Cardinals will play Tech at 7 p.m. that night on ESPN.

It's the first ACC game with an assigned date on U of L's schedule. The Cardinals have seemingly made-for-TV games against Duke, North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Virginia on their league slate.

The dates for those games haven't been announced.

The rest of the Big Monday schedule for the 2014-15 season includes Notre Dame at North Carolina on Jan. 5; Pitt at Duke on Jan. 19; Syracuse at North Carolina on Jan. 26; Virginia at North Carolina on Feb. 2; Duke at Florida State on Feb. 9; Pitt hat Virginia on Feb. 16; and Virginia at Syracuse on March 2.

Most of the games will be on ESPN. The Notre Dame-UNC game will be on either ESPN or ESPN2.

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