When it’s win or go home, nobody’s better than Kemba and the kids. Kemba Walker scored 18 points Saturday night to lift Connecticut to its 10th straight victory since finishing off a .500 regular season, a 56-55 win over cold-shooting Kentucky that moved the Huskies a victory away from their third, and most improbable, NCAA…
Kentucky fought to the bitter end but could not pull out the win against UConn. After trailing by 10 at the half, Kentucky made a run for it in the second half, pulling ahead after a series of 3-pointers. The second half of this Final Four match-up saw a number of lead changes and ties.…
Most of all, I remember the empty orange chair. Fifteen years have come and gone. Fifteen Roads to fifteen Final Fours. Fifteen shining moments. But that day at the Basketball Hall of Fame there was only the vacant chair. I was writing then for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, the closest newspaper to the University of…
John Calipari has been revered as a recruiter, praised as a motivator and lauded for his ability to put kids in the NBA. Three Final Four appearances and one startling one-month transformation later, maybe it’s due time the Kentucky coach gets the respect for what he really is first and foremost – a really good…
No one will be cheering the Cats on this weekend more than junior guard Darius Miller’s grandmother. But she won’t be doing it from Houston. As Sylvia Peters sits in her Maysville home, she recalls her grandson’s first time playing in Rupp Arena when … Read full article here.
It’s no doubt that Jessamine County has been shaken up by Jarrod Polson first walking on at the University of Kentucky basketball program and then earning a scholarship. People have followed his progress at UK this season, whether it be him pumping up his teammates from the bench or getting…
Bill Keightley Bill Keightley passed away on this day 3 years ago. Here’s a great tribute to Mr. Wildcat. Also, John Calipari announced on this day, two year ago, he had accepted the job as the head coach at the University of Kentucky.
After three days of practice, the East and West finally met on national television. In front of an all-time McDonald’s All-American game crowd of 20,019, James McAdoo and Mike Gilchrist led the East to an 111-96 win over the West. The East drew first blood when Brad Beal scored the first five of his 17…
As head coach John Calipari prepares for a historic third Final Four, his first with Kentucky, he has his blinders on and is only looking forward. If there is one thing he’s learned from his two previous Final Four appearances with Massachusetts in 1996 and Memphis in 2008, and even last year’s knockout in the…
From Eric Lindsey of Cat Scratches: “One day after cutting down the nets in Newark, N.J., senior forward Josh Harrellson was on the Scott Van Pelt Show on Monday. You can listen to the podcast here. Make sure you listen to the end. You won’t want to miss the part about the bullet Josh Harrellson threw off Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger.” The bullet you can see again in the video below.