Photo: Anthony Davis with the record breaking block
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Arkansas
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Arkansas
Cats down Hogs on Davis’ career night
Freshman Anthony Davisscored a career-high 27 points and blocked seven shots to set a season school record in No. 2 Kentucky’s 86-63 victory over Arkansas on Tuesday night. The Wildcats (18-1, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) won their 10th straight overall and extended the nation’s longest home winning streak to 46, including 45 straight at Rupp Arena. …
Video: Anthony Davis breaks Kentucky single-season record for blocks
Video: Anthony Davis breaks Kentucky single-season blocks record
Davis, Kidd-Gilchrist named Wooden Award finalists
If it’s uncommon for two teammates to be candidates for National Player of the Year, how rare is it for two roommates to do it? Kentucky freshmen Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist were named to the Midseason Top 25 for the John R. Wooden Award. Finalists for the award were announced on ESPNU’s show “The…
Anthony Davis named SEC Freshman of the Week
Kentucky’s Anthony Davis, a 6-foot-10, 222-pound freshman forward from Chicago, Ill., was named SEC Freshman of the Week after averaging 16 points, seven rebounds, four blocks, 2.5 steals and two assists in wins at Auburn and at Tennessee. Davis tallied eight blocks on the week moving him to within one block of the UK single-season record…
Sam Malone living a dream at the University of Kentucky
Sam Malone is a young man who is determined to love his life, so it should have come as no surprise when he Tweeted, “I wouldn’t want to be anyone in the world but me.” Malone, a freshman guard on the University of Kentucky basketball team, wrote that five days before making a cut during…
Kentucky Cheerleaders win national championship for 19th time
The UK Cheerleading team has won the UCA National Championship for the 19th time. Last year, the team came in second to Alabama. A video of the team’s 2012 semi-finals routine can be seen at. Head coach Jomo Thompson announced the news on Twitter at 8:44 p.m. “Kentucky has climbed the mountain once again and…
Former Cat Travis Ford holds 25.9 second post-game press conference
Travis Ford’s Oklahoma State Cowboys got a 106-65 whooping from Baylor today. Ford’s postgame press conference lasted only 25.9 seconds following the Cowboys’ lopsided loss to Baylor. “They played great. We played bad. There you go,” he said. “They played really, really, really well. Really, really, really well. Thank you.” Source.
Once again Kidd-Gilchrist’s will to win helps lift Kentucky to victory
Maybe Kentucky’s not tough enough for John Calipari’s tastes. Maybe the Wildcats aren’t yet the rough-and-rugged outfit their coach would prefer. But in a rollicking Thompson-Boling Arena on Saturday, No. 2 UK proved just tough enough to outlast Tennessee 65-62 in a bruising game that came right down to the wire. “We have a will to…