After everything that happened on the road a season ago, John Calipari felt helpless as his team fell behind and the same old script began to play itself out. He looked at his staff and asked a question that he already knew the answer to. “Are we going to have an easy game this year?”…
Cats survive their first SEC road test at Auburn
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Auburn
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Auburn
Davis, Lamb lead No. 2 Kentucky over Auburn 68-53
Anthony Davis and Doron Lamb scored 14 points apiece, and No. 2 Kentucky finished an uneven performance with a flourish to beat Auburn 68-53 Wednesday night. The Wildcats (16-1, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) had a 23-6 closing run for their second straight 15-point league win. They didn’t take a double-digit lead over the Tigers (10-6, 0-2)…
On this day in Kentucky basketball history in 1984, Kenny Walker made Charles Barkley cry
From UKWildcatsBlog.com: “The Wildcats had the ball with the game tied and 14 seconds left to play. On the inbounds play, the Wildcats got the ball into the hands of sophomore Kenny Walker. Once Walker had the ball, he bounced in a jump shot from 15 feet to give the Wildcats a 51-49 wins and…
Message received: Terrence Jones comes off bench to set freshman scoring record
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
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Auburn
Terrence Jones’ record night leads Kentucky past 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.
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Auburn
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky is now 18-0, 3-0 SEC on the season. Auburn falls to 9-9, 0-3. UK is 84-17 against the Tigers and 27-13 in Auburn. Kentucky has won 11 straight against Auburn and four in a row in Auburn. This is the final time the Wildcats will play in Beard-Eaves Coliseum.…
Kentucky features balanced attack in win over Auburn, 72-67
John Wall hit two free throws with 8.9 seconds left to help No. 2 Kentucky remain unbeaten with a 72-67 victory over Auburn on Saturday. The Wildcats (18-0, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) had a 13-point halftime lead wiped out and the freshman star had an uncharacteristically shaky game with seven turnovers. But his clutch foul shots…