Following the contentious regular season game, Indiana and Kentucky met in the
1975 NCAA Mideast Regional Final in
Dayton, Ohio. Coming into that game, the Hoosiers were on a 34-game winning streak, and the number one ranked team in America. Kentucky was ranked number five. However, Indiana had lost star player
Scott May to a broken arm in the regular season finale against
Purdue. May scored 25 points in the regular season IU-UK meeting, but he managed only 2 points in seven minutes in the Tournament game, which he played with a cast on his left arm that limited him to 7 minutes. IU surged to an early seven-point lead before UK rallied to tie it at 44 by halftime. Despite Indiana's
Kent Benson scoring 33 points (on 13-of-18 shooting) and grabbing 23 rebounds, Kentucky would win by just two points, 92–90. The game made
USA Today's list of the greatest NCAA tournament games of all time. • East • Kentucky 76, Marquette 54 • Kentucky 90, Central Michigan 73 • Kentucky 92, Indiana 90 • Final Four • Kentucky 95,
Syracuse 79 • UCLA 92, Kentucky 85 ==Team players drafted into the NBA==