KU players gather on the court during KU's 150-95 blowout of Rick Pitino's Kentucky Wildcats in December, 1989. From left are Pekka Markkanen, Freeman West, Kevin Prichard and Jeff Gueldner. Seven KU players scored in double figures.

On Dec. 9, 1989, Kansas handed Kentucky its worst loss in program history, 150-95.

25 years later, it's still hard to believe ...

... all against one of the top programs in college basketball history.

Here's part of the post-game coverage from longtime Journal-World beat writer Gary Bedore:

Rick Pitino sure didn't act like a coach who had been left twisting in the wind.

Yet Adolph Rupp, the legendary Baron of the Bluegrass, the man who turned college basketball into a religion in Kentucky, may have been twisting in his grave.

"I'm not concerned about the score," Pitino said after Kansas besmirched bluegrass basketball with an astonishing 150-95 victory on Saturday afternoon in Allen Fieldhouse.

"We could have slowed down," added Pitino, who left the New York Knicks to take over Kentucky's probation-riddled program this season, "but we can't get anything out of that. It's very, very embarrassing, but if you hang your heads that'll happen. And until we get some bigger bodies, it'll happen again."

It was the most lopsided loss in the history of Kentucky's tradition-rich program. City College of New York, a school that has long since dropped basketball, clubbed the Wildcats, 89-39, in the NIT back in 1950.

Too, the 150 points were the most a Kentucky team had surrendered in 1,945 games. . .or ever since the school started its program back in 1903. The previous high was 116 and that was in a 118-116 win over Northwestern back in 1966.

Did Pitino think Kansas coach Roy Williams tried to run up the score?

"I believe they weren't trying to hurt anyone," he said. "They were just passing the ball and scoring. They just drilled us."