Kentucky junior DeAndre Liggins and freshmen Terrence Jones and Brandon Knight have declared for this year’s NBA Draft. None of the three have signed or announced plans to sign with an agent. Liggins, a 6-foot-6 guard from Chicago, served as the Wildcats’ defensive stopper this season, consistently drawing the assignment of guarding the opposing team’s…
Three Wildcats declare for NBA Draft
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Connecticut
Go here for boxscore. — Kentucky finishes its season at 29-9 on the season. Connecticut improves to 31-9. — The Wildcats are 1-3 all-time against Connecticut and 0-2 against the Huskies in the NCAA Tournament. — UK drops to 105-46 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and 7-3 in national semifinal games. — John Calipari is…
What the world saw was a whole new DeAndre Liggins
DeAndre Liggins did not play in any of the Kentucky Wildcat’s first nine games last year. He had been a regular player on Coach Billy Gillispie’s 2008-2009 Wildcat team, but obviously something just wasn’t the way new coach John Calipari wanted. No information was given out by Calipari to explain the lack of playing time…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. North Carolina
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. North Carolina
Deandre Liggins helps shoot Kentucky into Final Four
Maybe now, everyone understands why Kentucky coach John Calipari kept DeAndre Liggins around. The quiet, unassuming junior forward from Chicago has never been the star, even under former coach Billy Gillispie. Most critics wondered where he would fit into Calipari’s system, one that seems to rely so heavily on one-and-done freshman phenoms. It turns out…
Cats roll Tarheels to advance to the Final Four
Brandon Knight scored 22 points and fourth-seeded Kentucky restored some order to the Final Four with a 76-69 win over second-seeded North Carolina on Sunday in the East Regional final. The Wildcats (29-8) will play Connecticut in Houston on Saturday night after turning back a late surge by the Tar Heels (27-10), who erased an…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Ohio State
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Ohio State
Deandre Liggins stands tall in win over Ohio State
When it was over, DeAndre Liggins leapt atop a table on press row and popped the word ‘Kentucky’ on his blue jersey outward toward a delirious UK cheering section.The sweetest, most significant University of Kentucky basketball victory since 1998 had just gone final Friday night…
Holdovers Harrellson, Liggins and Miller guiding inexperienced Wildcats in NCAAs
Until a week ago, Josh Harrellson‘s NCAA tournament experience consisted largely of towel waving. The Kentucky senior center admits he grew pretty good at it while spending most of last season on the bench watching soon-to-be NBAers DeMarcus Cousins, John Wall and Patrick Patterson revitalize the Wildcats. Harrellson even admitted last month a part of…
Deandre Liggins relishes role as defensive stopper
Among the NBA players DeAndre Liggins considers as a role model is Ron Artest. Does anything else need to be said about Liggins’ interest in defensive play and ploy?”Yeah, he’s on the edge,” Kentucky’s defensive stopper said recently of Artest. “But you need a guy like that to win, you know.”But …