With an entire SportsCenter episode’s worth of highlights, every reason for the Kentucky Wildcats’ high preseason ranking was on full display at Wednesday’s Blue-White Scrimmage. With an athletic and long combination of experienced and young talent, the Cats electrified fans with an arsenal of dunks, drives and alley oops as the Blue team defeated the…
Go here for boxscore. Tonight’s attendance: 12,134 (2010-11 attendance: 11,391). This was the fourth year that the Blue-White Scrimmage was played in Rupp Arena. The win marks the 10th consecutive game that Blue has gone unbeaten in the Blue-White Scrimmage, with its last loss to White coming in 2000-01 (scrimmage not held in…
Terrence Jones isn’t going to spontaneously change this season into some unstoppable, basketball-like robot, capable of turning his arms into mechanical scoring machines like some Hollywood blockbuster (although his new biceps might lead some to believe otherwise). But this is undoubtedly a different Terrence Jones. Something about him is not quite the same. Underneath the same laidback exterior…
Enes Kanter looked down the line of seats on the Rupp Arena sidelines. Which one was he confined to last year, when he was forced to sit the bench all season after the NCAA ruled him ineligible? Kanter pointed to a seat marked No. 15. “Right at the end of the bench,” Kanter said. At…
The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team was picked by the media to win its 45th Southeastern Conference championship this season as announced by the SEC on Monday. Each SEC school selected media members that cover their team and additional media from across the nation were selected by the conference office to form the voting…
The UK men’s basketball team checks in at No. 2 in the newly released ESPN/USA Today Coaches preseason Top 25. It marks the third straight season in the John Calipari Era that Kentucky ranks in the top 10 in the coaches’ preseason poll. The Cats checked in at 10th last season and fifth in…
UK freshmen Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague are among 12 players announced Thursday by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) as preseason candidates for the Wayman Tisdale Award, honoring the nation’s top freshman for the 2011-12 college basketball season. The three freshmen were part of the top-ranked recruiting class in the country…
Adolph Rupp, the architect of Kentucky basketball, told Sports Illustrated in 1962, “If I had my choice of one man in the country to build my team around, it would be Cotton Nash.” Kentucky basketball did not magically appear at the pinnacle of college basketball by accident. Rather, the program was elevated to blue-blood status…
“God taught Louie how to shoot, and I took credit for it.” — Adolph Rupp, University of Kentucky head coach. If the Lord Almighty taught any ball player how to shoot, Louie Dampier is indeed a fine candidate. His release was divine. The stroke heavenly. The touch transcendent. Dampier’s jumper wasn’t just long-range, it…
Photo: 2011 Final Four banner hung in Rupp Arena during Big Blue Madness