Stacey Poole is waiting his turn. Poole’s playing time has been limited this season playing behind Brandon Knight and Doron Lamb, but the freshman guard is garnering plenty of experience playing behind his two freshman classmates. “It makes me better going up against those guys every day,” Poole said…
It seemed fitting in a way that the first time the Kentucky men’s basketball team opened its postgame locker room to the media in a regular-season game in nearly a decade, head coach John Calipari may have aired his displeasure with some of his team by shaking up the lineup. Kentucky won handily Tuesday night, manhandling an overmatched Auburn team 78-54 for the Cats’ (13-3, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) first league win of the season, but the bigger story after the game was the lineup changes, particularly Terrence Jones coming off the…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Auburn
Terrence Jones set a Kentucky freshman single-game scoring record with 35 points as the 13th-ranked Wildcats rolled by Auburn 78-54 on Tuesday night. Jones broke the previous record of 32 points – set by teammate Doron Lamb against Winthrop last month – behind a series of jumpers and layups as Kentucky (13-3, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) easily avoided its first losing streak under coach John Calipari.
You could make a case that since the NBA’s developmental league debuted in 2001, there has not been a more celebrated or marquee player to pass through than Antoine Walker. He is currently playing his trade for the Idaho Stampede in one final attempt to make it back to the NBA, where he won an NBA title with the Miami Heat, made three All-Star appearances as a Boston Celtic, and earned more than $100 million over 12 seasons.
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Georgia
Brandon Knight is Kentucky’s undisputed leader on the court, and that’s not up for debate. What the freshman point guard says, goes. Coach John Calipari recently drove that point home to all the Wildcats. After Knight watched teammate Eloy Vargas fumble away a rebound during Monday’s win over Penn, he pulled Vargas aside and encouraged him to grab the ball with two hands.
University of Kentucky men’s basketball student-athlete Enes Kanter has been ruled permanently ineligible for receiving impermissible compensation from a professional team. The NCAA Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee has upheld the NCAA staff decision that Kanter received $33,033 above his actual and necessary expenses for one year while playing for a club basketball team in Turkey. The…
Terrence Jones is one of 30 players on the John R. Wooden Award midseason watch list
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Pennsylvania