Scott Padgett has known Steve Masiello quite a long time. “Since he was wearing his Chris Sabo specs in high school,” said Padgett, the former Kentucky star, eight-year NBA veteran and current Manhattan College assistant coach. “He came to camp in Kentucky in my senior year of high school, his junior year,” Padgett said. “We played on a team that…
The No. 1 ranked Kentucky Wildcats finished the game on a 20-4 run to come back from a seven-point deficit in the final six minutes to defeat the Mississippi State Bulldogs 73-64 Tuesday night in Starkville, Miss. The Bulldogs started off hot, streaking out to a 12-2 lead over the Cats in the first five…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Mississippi State
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 18 points, Anthony Davis added 13 points and 11 rebounds and No. 1 Kentucky rallied to beat Mississippi State 73-64 Tuesday night. The Wildcats (27-1, 13-0 Southeastern Conference) trailed 41-28 at halftime, but slowly climbed back to take their first lead at 63-62 with 4:11 remaining on a layup by Kidd-Gilchrist. They…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Ole Miss
As motivation to keep the Rupp Arena crowd rowdy, Kentucky coach John Calipari has said when the Wildcats lose home games, he won’t stick around to sign autographs. Three years into his tenure, he’s still signed after every home game. Terrence Jones had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 1 Kentucky to a 77-62 victory…
With the postseason approaching at warp speed the popular thing for college basketball analysts and experts to do is pick apart the teams with the best chance of descending upon Bourbon Street for the Final Four. It’s as much about why they can’t get to New Orleans as it is why they will.Kentucky’s top-ranked squad…
UK freshmen Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist were named among five finalists for the 2012 Wayman Tisdale Award given to the nation’s top freshman as voted on by the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). Davis, a 6-foot-10, 222-pound freshman forward from Chicago, Ill., leads the country in blocks (127 and 4.9 per game) and…
One day after undergoing surgery to repair a torn deltoid ligament and a broken bone in his left ankle, guard Keith Bogans was waived by the Nets today. The Nets then signed forward Andre Emmett to a 10-day contract. Emmett, a 6-5 forward, had been playing for the Reno Bighorns of the D-League. He had been…
John Calipari probably said more, but he only needed three words to get his pregame point across as No. 1 Kentucky prepared to take on Vanderbilt Saturday night. He scribbled them across the board in the UK locker room at Memorial Gym. “Love The Road,” he wrote. The Wildcats got the message. Kentucky blew a double-digit…