Kentucky senior Darius Miller expressed a humble thank you after becoming the 58th player in program history to score 1,000 points during his career. “It’s a honor to be part of something like that, especially in a program like this,” Miller said after joining that fraternity Tuesday night with 15 points in a 73-51 victory…
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky is 14-1 and Arkansas-Little Rock is 5-11. This was the first meeting between UK and UALR. UK is 8-3 all-time against the current alignment of the Sun Belt Conference. UK has an all-time record of 123-33 record in games played in Louisville, including a 60-18 mark in Freedom Hall.…
Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis had 22 points and 16 rebounds, and the No. 2 Wildcats overcame a slow start with a big run that put away Arkansas-Little Rock 73-51 on Tuesday night at Freedom Hall. Darius Miller’s 3-pointer with 11:03 left put the Wildcats up 45-35 and made him the 58th Kentucky player to score…
Kentucky freshman forward Anthony Davis’ game-saving block against then-No. 5 North Carolina on Dec. 3 is nominated for the GEICO Play of the Year, Intersport announced Monday. Each week for eight weeks, four incredible college basketball plays will be nominated as the GEICO Play of the Year. Each week’s winner will be determined by fan…
Syracuse is No. 1 in The Associated Press’ Top 25 for a fourth straight week and Pittsburgh is out of the poll for the first time since the middle of 2009-10. The Orange received 60 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. Kentucky, which moved up one spot to second, got the other five.…
From Dick Vitale: “I love his (Kidd-Gilchrist) passion and emotion. He had 24 points and 19 rebounds in a win over Louisville.” via Weekly awards – ESPN.
It wasn’t the prettiest of games or the most impressive of wins, but Kentucky beat Louisville 69-62 in a top-five matchup Saturday, bringing the Cats’ record to a sparkling 13-1. And after then-No. 2 Ohio State lost to Indiana later that day, the Buckeyes got bumped from the No. 2 spot in the USA TODAY/ESPN…
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was named the SEC Player of the week while Anthony Davis garnered Freshmen of the Week honors. From the SEC: “Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, a 6-foot-7, 232-pound freshman guard from Somerdale, N.J., was named SEC Player of the Week after averaging 21.0 points, 12.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in wins over Lamar and fourth-ranked Louisville. Kidd-Gilchrist…
That is, unless some other team successfully devises a means of coping with Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. His mouth slightly ajar, his shoulders drooping slightly, his chest seeming to heave with every breath, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist appears exhausted throughout every basketball game he plays for the Kentucky Wildcats. And isn’t that the ultimate paradox? Because who out there…
Rupp Arena sounded like an aviary after the refs whistled an astounding 51 fouls (plus two technicals). Neither Kentucky nor Louisville are consistently sharp in half-court execution as is, but the constant whistles took any semblance of flow out of the contest. The result was a ton of scrappy possessions, missed shots and over-the-back fouls.…