Camera flashes dotted a sea of blue at New Orleans Arena as Eric Bledsoe flew down the lane and took flight five feet from the rim to throw down a one-hand tomahawk jam. Kentucky head coach John Calipari had nothing. What could he say? He headed back to the bench and scratched his head. Calipari…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Wake Forest
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky improves to 34-2 on the season while Wake Forest is now 20-11. UK is 5-0 in the series against the Demon Deacons and 3-0 against the Deacons in the NCAA Tournament. The Wildcats are 100-44 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. UK is 5-2 in NCAA Tournament games played in…
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Cats grab 100th NCAA victory by rolling Wake Forest 90-60; Sweet 16 next
Darius Miller scored a career-high 20 points and top-seeded Kentucky made easy work of No. 9 Wake Forest during a 90-60 rout Saturday night in the second round of the NCAA tournament. It was the second blowout in two games for the Wildcats (34-2), who crushed East Tennessee State 100-71 in their opener. Miller scored…
Daniel Orton provides story of loyalty, sacrifice
John Calipari, the loquacious, lovable and laudable head basketball coach at the University of Kentucky, has never met a story he didn’t like to tell. So when asked to explain how reserve forward Daniel Orton ended up in Bluegrass Country, in the same recruiting class with NBA-ready freshman phenoms John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins, Calipari…
Patrick Patterson enjoys his NCAA debut
Patrick Patterson had played 93 games in his University of Kentucky basketball career. He’d made 600 baskets and scored 1,521 points. And until Thursday, none of them had come in the NCAA Tournament. Patterson made up for lost time in UK’s 100-71 first-round win against East Tennessee State on Thursday at New Orleans Arena, scoring…
The Wildcats may be a young team, but they aren’t inexperienced
With as much ease as it disposed of East Tennessee State, UK seemed to do everything in its power Thursday to rid itself of the one wound critics have salted all year: inexperience. At this point, how can anyone call a team inexperienced if it’s gone through just about every situation a team can face?…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. East Tennessee State
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky improves to 33-2 on the season while East Tennessee State is now 20-15. UK is 3-0 in the series against the Buccaneers. The Wildcats are 99-44 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. UK is 4-2 in NCAA Tournament games played in the New Orleans metro area. UK also is 40-10…
Cats coast to easy win in New Orleans, beat East Tennessee State 100-71
Eric Bledsoe’s eight 3-pointers set a Kentucky record for an NCAA tournament game, and the top-seeded Wildcats dominated throughout in a 100-71 victory over East Tennessee State on Thursday night in the first round of the East Regional. Scoring 29 points in all, Bledsoe started 8 of 8 on 3s before finally missing his first…
Calipari has been named a finalist for Naismith Coach of the Year
The University of Kentucky’s John Calipari, one of only two multiple Naismith winners, is among four finalists for the 2010 Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced today. He is joined by three would-be first-time Naismith honorees in Steve Alford (New Mexico), Jim Boeheim (Syracuse) and Frank Martin (Kansas State).…