Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Vanderbilt
Cats rally late, win 69-63 at Vanderbilt
Doron Lamb hit a 3-pointer with 3:18 left to put No. 1 Kentucky ahead to stay, and the Wildcats took a big step toward a Southeastern Conference regular-season title by beating Vanderbilt 69-63 Saturday night for their 17th straight win. Kentucky (25-1, 11-0) disrupted Vanderbilt with aggressive defense in the first half, and the Wildcats…
Former Cat Jim Master remembers Memorial
“I thought it was a great place to play and I even tell some of my buddies that it was one of my favorite places to play to shoot in.” So says one of UK’s all-time best sharpshooters of Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gymnasium, Jim Master. “It is a great shooting gym with the way it is…
Reliving Nazr Mohammed’s Memorial magic
On Jan. 27, 1998, the No. 7 Kentucky Wildcats entered its contest in Memorial Gymnasium against the Vanderbilt Commodores with an overall record of 18-2 and a perfect SEC mark of 7-0. It was Tubby Smith’s first year as the head coach of the Wildcats, and he had his club rolling along as winners of eight straight, with…
Anthony Davis has single-handedly out-blocked 18 opponents this season
It’s getting awfully hard to come up with new adjectives to describe Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis’ play on the basketball court this season. The soon-to-be-No. 1 overall draft pick already looks like the most iconic player of the John Calipari era in Lexington, and we still haven’t even sniffed March yet. In a word, the…
Former Cat Sean Woods makes Unforgettable run as coach
Even now, at age 41, Sean Woods wonders about what might have been. On March 28, it will have been exactly two decades since the Kentucky point guard hit that running, 10-foot bank shot over the fully extended arms of Christian Laettner that put UK 2.1 seconds from upsetting mighty Duke in the 1992 NCAA…
Future Cat Alex Poythress mixes humility with unique skill set
Alex Poythress is the big man on campus at Clarksville Northeast High school, even if it’s not by choice. Such is life when you’re a six-foot-seven All-American basketball player signed to play next season for John Calipari at Kentucky. Poythress finalized the decision in November. His signing was greeted with the typical exaltation the Big…
The outstretched arms of Anthony Davis are equal to the length of 18.125 unibrows
The Wildcats gave away Jordan-esque posters* of Anthony Davis to fans at Tuesday’s rout of Florida, and the swag (which had a run of 30,000) is now being flipped for three-figure prices on eBay. As a non-collector of Wildcat ephemera, I consider the poster’s main value to be scientific. When Leonardo da Vinci drew his Vitruvian Man, he…
Catching up with former Cat Walter McCarty
The Walter McCarty that most fans know began his journey at Harrison High School in his hometown of Evansville, Indiana. And this is something that McCarty has not forgotten. While many times star athletes tend to forget their routes, McCarty never has: “I was actually at Harrison a couple of weeks ago and am still…
Alex Poythress, Archie Goodwin named to McDonald’s All-American game
Alex Poythress and Archie Goodwin, two UK signees in the Class of 2013, were named to the McDonald’s All-American game. Both are considered five-star, top-20 prospects by multiple recruiting sites. They will play on opposite teams. Their spot on the roster follows them being named to the Jordan Classic, the other notable high school all-star…