BLOOMINGTON — For the first time in 14 years, Thursday, when an Indiana basketball coach faced his first question about the Kentucky series , he didn’t have to deflect.

Darian DeVries is the first man in IU’s head job since Tom Crean to inherit a series with Kentucky, after the longtime intrastate rivalry was put back on the schedule by Mike Woodson and John Calipari, two old friends who will now never coach in the rivalry they helped reignite.

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