Ex-LSU coach Dale Brown returning to Rupp Arena on Saturday

Former LSU coach Dale Brown plans to accompany the Tigers on their trip to Kentucky on Saturday. His visit will return the coach with the most career victories against UK to Rupp Arena.

"This is truly an honor considering they were who I wanted us to emulate," Brown wrote in an e-mail. "Doggone, who would have ever thought? Kentucky basketball has always been prodigious in my eyes."

Brown, who coached LSU from 1971-72 through 1996-97, led his teams to 18 victories against Kentucky. The next-most victories over UK by an opposing coach are 15, by Bob Knight of Indiana and Ray Mears of Tennessee.

Other coaches with a double-digit number of victories over Kentucky are Dean Smith of North Carolina (13), Roy Skinner of Vanderbilt (13), Billy Donovan of Florida (12), Don DeVoe of Tennessee (11), Wimp Sanderson of Alabama (11) and C.M. Newton of Alabama and Vanderbilt (10).

Besides attending the game, Brown said Wednesday that he will use the trip to visit former UK player Tom Payne. Payne, the first African-American basketball player for Kentucky, is imprisoned at the Little Sandy Correctional Complex in Sandy Hook.

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