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Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Long Beach State
Go here for boxscore. With the win, Kentucky improves to 13-0 and with the loss, Long Beach State is 6-6. Off to a 13-0 start, UK has jumped out to the best start to a season since the 1977-78 team opened 14-0. The 1953-54 team opened a school-record 25-0. UK won the first meeting…
Kentucky avoids post-2,000 hangover with 86-73 win over Long Beach State
John Wall scored 19 points and No. 3 Kentucky pulled away in the second half for an 86-73 victory over weary Long Beach State on Wednesday. DeMarcus Cousins shook off early foul trouble to finish with 15 points and 10 rebounds as the Wildcats (13-0) continued their best start in more than 30 years. Read…
2000 win milestone belongs to Cats past and present
“This is for the greatest fans in the history of college basketball,” UK Coach John Calipari said. What a trek UK2K has been. Win No. 108 (1921) came when Bill King’s free throw with no time left gave Kentucky its first major tournament championship, 20-19, over Georgia in the finals of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic…
The reinvention of DeAndre Liggins
DeAndre Liggins wasn’t doing something right. That much was clear. The second-year guard, once hailed as the future point guard of the Kentucky basketball program, rode the pine for the first eight games and didn’t even make the trip to New York City to face Connecticut. Neither John Calipari, Liggins nor UK officials will say…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Drexel
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky is 12-0 while Drexel is 6-6. Kentucky’s 12-0 start is its best since the 1983-84 squad that opened with 12 consecutive wins. This is the eighth time in school history that the Wildcats have begun a season with at least 12 straight wins. John Calipari is the only coach…
Kentucky gets 2000! Defeats Drexel 88-44
Kentucky’s 2,000th victory looked awfully familiar. DeMarcus Cousins and Patrick Patterson scored 18 points apiece and the third-ranked Wildcats became the first team in NCAA history to reach the 2,000-win plateau with an 88-44 romp over Drexel on Monday night. Read full article here.
Reliving 2,000 wins through the legends
From Eric Lindsey of the UK Athletics office, “Two-thousand wins. An achievement no other school – not Kansas, not North Carolina, not UCLA – has ever achieved. For the first time in college basketball, a school has reached the 2,000 mark. Kentucky, as the rightful owner of the winningest record in college basketball, is the…
Notable victories in Kentucky basketball history
A list of some of Kentucky’s most notable victories from SI.com: Feb. 18, 1903 – Kentucky (then known as State College) beats Lexington YMCA 11-10 for its first-ever win. Feb. 18, 1909 – Kentucky edges Cincinnati 11-10 to clinch first winning season. March 1, 1912 – A 19-18 victory over Georgetown College caps undefeated 9-0…
Kentucky: From modest beginnings, a powerhouse emerged
Back in 1903, W.W.H. Mustaine, the director of physical education at the time, called some students together and passed around the hat until there was $3 in it — enough to buy a ball. He then told them to start playing. The first season got off to a bumpy start. The Wildcats went just 1-2,…