The Southeastern Conference named Kentucky’s Terrence Jones as the league’s Freshman of the Week. Jones scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in UK’s season-opening victory over East Tennessee State on Friday. The SEC named Vanderbilt guard Brad Tinsley as its Player of the Week. Tinsley had Vandy’s first triple-double: 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a victory over Presbyterian.
Terrence Jones named SEC Freshman of the Week
Doron Lamb made big impact in college debut
Lamb didn’t start in his official college debut, but made a big impact in Kentucky’s season opener Friday night at Rupp Arena. Lamb was one of four players who scored in double figures in the Wildcats’ 88-65 win over East Tennessee State. Lamb started the team’s two exhibition games, but…
Kentucky rolls ETSU in season opener
Terrence Jones had 25 points and 12 rebounds, Doron Lamb added 20 points and Brandon Knight had 17 points and five assists as Kentucky rolled by the Buccaneers in the second half. “Our freshmen played well,” Calipari said. “They’ve got to get steadier, got to get rougher and tougher.” Still, for a class that will forever be compared to the historic one that came before it, the new kids appear to be up to the task.
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. East Tennessee State
Go here for boxscore. – Kentucky began its 108th season of intercollegiate basketball tonight. – UK is now 89-19 in season-opening games and 92-16 all-time in home openers. – With the victory in tonight’s lidlifter, the all-time winningest program in college basketball history now has 2,024 wins on the books. – UK leads the series…
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…