By JACOB POLACHECK
The Kentucky Wildcats and UCLA Bruins are set to face off in the CBS Sports Classic at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland on Dec. 19, event organizers announced Thursday.
The game will be the second part of a doubleheader with North Carolina taking on Ohio State in the first game.
Cleveland will be the fifth city to host the CBS Sports Classic in its seven-year history, following Chicago (2014, 2018), Brooklyn (2015), Las Vegas (2016, 2019) and New Orleans (2017).
Both matchups in Cleveland will be nationally televised on CBS.
This will be the first meeting between UCLA and Kentucky since the two programs faced each other in Dec. 2017.
Kentucky is 8-7 all-time vs. UCLA but the Bruins have won the last three out of four in the series including an 83-75 victory over the Wildcats in 2017.
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