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Pitino: Fine with him if UK uses Louisville arena

The Columbian
Published: August 2, 2011, 5:00pm

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino says he doesn’t care if a team of former Kentucky players currently in the NBA and Wildcats coach John Calipari borrow his team’s homecourt for one night.

But his tone suggested otherwise Wednesday during a press conference to discuss his team’s upcoming trip to the Bahamas.

Pitino says the KFC Yum! Center is a public facility and though “it’s our homecourt during the season … obviously anybody can go in there.”

A group of ex-Kentucky players are scheduled to play an exhibition game in Louisville on Aug. 15 against the Dominican Republic national team.

When an obviously irritated Pitino was asked why isn’t the exhibition game being played at Freedom Hall in Lexington, he said: “Why don’t you ask them that?”

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