ESPN College GameDay visited Lexington during the 2009-10 season with a record crowd as its backdrop. (UK Athletics)
ESPN College GameDay has announced its stops for the 2011-12 basketball season. As is the case just about every year, UK will be featured in one of the eight games. The GameDay gang will make a pit stop in Nashville on Feb. 11 for the UK-Vanderbilt game, the only Southeastern Conference matchup featured on the ESPN show this season.All eyes will be on Memorial Gymnasium that night as UK freshman Anthony Davis will go head to head with Vanderbilt big man Festus Ezeli. Of course, with the game in Nashville this year, that also means the GameDay crew will not visit Lexington for the second straight year. Andy Katz of ESPN.com has a breakdown of the games here.And if you didn’t see it Wednesday, the UK-St. John’s game in the inaugural Big East/SEC
Challenge has been set for a 7:30 p.m. ET tipoff in Rupp Arena on ESPN2.