John Calipari made sure his team heard about it. Following Kentucky’s semifinal win over Florida in the Southeastern Conference Tournament, Patric Young said that his Gators had intentionally picked up the pace against the Wildcats because they saw an opportunity. “It started wearing the guys out a lot because we don’t think they’re in the…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Western Kentucky
Terrence Jones had 22 points and 10 rebounds, Doron Lamb scored 16 and top-seeded Kentucky began its quest for an eighth national title with a staggering display of athleticism in an 81-66 victory over Western Kentucky on Thursday night. On a day when Syracuse nearly became the first No. 1 seed ever to lose to…
University of Kentucky head men’s basketball coach John Calipari has been named one of four finalists for the Naismith College Coach of the Year the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced on Thursday. A two-time winner of the award in 2008 and 1996, Calipari is looking to become only the second coach to earn the honor three…
Tell Me When It’s Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: former basketball player Rick Robey. Robey was a fourth-year senior when Kentucky beat Duke 94-88 on March 27, 1978, to win its first national championship in 20 years. Teammate…
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Kentucky high school basketball is getting its own Hall of Fame. It will not only have a brick-and-mortar structure, but also a mission of conveying the “essence” of the game to the state’s young people. The Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches made that announcement on Tuesday and named the Hall of Fame’s first inductees. The…
President Barack Obama has Kentucky, Ohio State, Missouri and North Carolina in the Final Four of his NCAA mens basketball bracket, which will be unveiled in its entirety Wednesday on ESPN.Obama filled out a bracket for the fourth consecutive year. He picked North Carolina to win the 2009 title — and was correct.Hes gone with…
An All-American team should kind of look like an actual basketball team. We have no idea why people can’t grasp this concept, but not everybody does. So you see All-American teams with five forwards or four guards, and no team should ever have five forwards or four guards (unless, of course, Frank Haith is coaching…