On this day in 1968, Adolph Rupp won his 772nd basketball game and passed Phog Allen as the all-time wins leader in major college basketball. Rupp earned the historic win after Kentucky defeated Mississippi. Rupp had actually played college basketball under Allen at Kansas. Rupp ended his career with 876 wins. His record would stand…
Terrence Jones elects to pay back LSU on his own
Something clicked inside Terrence Jones when he saw teammate Anthony Davis lying on his back in pain after a hard collision under the LSU basket. “When stuff like that happens to one of your brothers, you don’t like that,” Jones said. “The only way we could redeem that is by continuing to play hard, just…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at LSU
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky improves to 21-1, 7-0 in the Southeastern Conference, while LSU falls to 12-9, 2-5. The Wildcats are 81-24 all-time against LSU and 29-16 in Baton Rouge. UK is now 892-251 in SEC regular season action. Kentucky has won three-straight against LSU by an average of 29.3 points. Kentucky extends…
Terrence Jones leads Kentucky past LSU, 74-50
Terrence Jones highlighted a 27-point performance with a 13-0 run on his own and No. 1 Kentucky pulled away in the second half for a 74-50 win over struggling LSU Saturday night. Anthony Davis had 16 points and 10 rebounds despite briefly leaving the game when he hurt his right shoulder in a scramble for…
Anthony Davis leads Dick Vitale’s All-Swat team
The blocked shot is a lost art at a lot of schools. It is a play that often leads to transition baskets. Making the key block on defense can make or break a team. My friends, I love seeing the big men on campus who come through with the big play. I was thinking about…
Anthony Davis’ rise is unprecedented
Imagine, if you will, Bob “Mr. Baseball” Uecker going from a lifetime .200 hitter to a .350 slugger with 50 homers and 150 RBI in one year. Unlikely? Improbable? Impossible? Not even in the steroids era, right? Pure fantasy. Now imagine an 18-year-old kid from Chicago’s South Side going from an obscure 6-foot-1 guard to…
Bond between Davis, Kidd-Gilchrist driving Wildcats’ success
Even in an age of college basketball when many freshmen are called upon to star from the moment they set foot on campus, Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist are rare. Davis, with his UK single-season block record of 98, and Kidd-Gilchrist, with his nationally known defensive, energetic reputation, have established themselves as one of the…
Coach Cal says he has best job in basketball
In case you missed it this evening, Pardon the Interruption has John Calipari’s appearance on Thursday’s show in its daily podcast. You can access that by clicking here. Coach Cal comes on at roughly the 10-minute mark. And for those that prefer to read, I decided to transcribe the interview. Most of it you’ve heard before,…
Even at 20-1, Calipari pushing Kentucky to be ‘special’
No one moved to Nemanja Djurisic after the Georgia freshman set a screen and then moved to an open spot on the three-point line. After Djurisic swished a three-pointer, Kentucky Coach John Calipari raised both hands, then opened and closed the fingers to signal his players should have talked with each other to make sure…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Georgia
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Georgia