Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Louisville
Kentucky stuffs the birds of Louisville, 69-62
Freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had season-highs with 24 points and 19 rebounds to lead No. 3 Kentucky in a rough-and-tumble 69-62 victory over No. 4 Louisville on Saturday to extend the nation’s longest home winning streak. Fellow freshman Anthony Davis added 18 points, all in the second half, for the Wildcats (13-1) in their annual in-state…
Louisville vs. Kentucky is college basketball’s most heated rivalry
For all the (mostly deserved) flack the network gets, the 21st century sports fan is still forever indebted to ESPN for everything it’s done over the past 30 years. The world wide leader is the driving force behind the modern fan: the man or woman who can gleefully devote any given weekend to watching 48…
The entire Kentucky fan base is so passionately involved in every instant in the game
New York Daily News writer Dick “Hoops” Weiss has some great things to say about the atmosphere at Rupp and the fanbase in general in this article: “Wildcat fans got a glimpse behind the Big Blue curtain Monday night with coach Calipari’s Christmas gift of the chance to go online and watch a practice session. …
Terrence Jones’ finger still painful
Terrence Jones looked down and saw one finger did not match the rest. After a play three games ago, Jones saw his pinky finger horizontal to the ground, while the others were vertical. “I ain’t never seen my finger like that,” Jones said. “I wasn’t even in basketball mode anymore. I was just worried about…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Lamar
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky is 12-1 and Lamar is 8-5. Kentucky leads the series 3-0. The Wildcats are 7-1 all-time against the current lineup of the Southland Conference. Kentucky concludes its five-game homestand Saturday at noon vs. Louisville. The game will be televised by CBS. First-Half Facts Kentucky started with the…
Kentucky rolls past Lamar, 86-64
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 18 points and No. 3 Kentucky beat Lamar 86-64 on Wednesday night in the Wildcats’ final game before facing No. 4 Louisville. Kentucky (12-1) opened the game on an 11-2 run and maintained its first-half lead because of its free throw shooting. The Wildcats were 14 of 17 from the foul line in…
Anthony Davis is the next big thing in college basketball
Until 24 months ago, Anthony Davis was a nondescript set of initials. “Most people call me AD; I’ve never had nicknames based on my game,” says the Kentucky forward. Of course not. Nicknames are a statement, affectionate and brief, describing the most obvious hook of a person. When he was an oversize infant born in Chicago, his…
On this date in Kentucky basketball history (hint @rexchapman)…
Big Brother, indeed. Eddie Sutton proclaimed Kentucky the “Big Brother” of this rivalry and, as in the Orwellian vision, “Big Brother” was everywhere yesterday in smashing Louisville 85-51. How all-encompassing was it? The defeat was Louisville’s worst since Feb. 13, 1956 (Xavier 99, U of L 59). It was Louisville coach Denny Crum’s worst, period.…
Kyle Wiltjer is Dick Vitale’s Diaper Dandy of the Week
Wiltjer scored a career-high 24 points in a win over Loyola-Maryland.