The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team was picked by the media to win its 45th Southeastern Conference championship this season as announced by the SEC on Monday. Each SEC school selected media members that cover their team and additional media from across the nation were selected by the conference office to form the voting…
Terrences Jones voted preseason SEC Player of the Year; Kentucky picked to win SEC
Calipari: “We are chasing greatness”
Cal wants to control the mindset of his players and True Blue Fans. And why not? It’s working. Dreaming big for Cal became part of his life a long time ago. “It started with my mother,” Cal told the Tip-Off luncheon in Louisville. “My mothers comment all the time was think and dream beyond your…
Calipari on this year’s team: “Believe the hype.”
In assessing another freshman-dependent Kentucky basketball team, Calipari had a familiar message for fans: Believe the hype. At this ultra-early stage, Anthony Davis is further along in basketball development than John Calipari’s former big-man star at Massachusetts, Marcus Camby. Calipari foresees nothing preventing Marquis Teague from claiming his rightful place among the coach’s star-studded parade…
Kentucky is loaded with talent and blessed with depth
If the recruiting gurus have it right this time around, then the incoming class debuting at Kentucky this fall may be the best of John Calipari’s coaching career. No, Marquis Teague has not directed his first half-court set. Anthony Davis hasn’t dunked over SEC-caliber big men. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist hasn’t defended an explosive scorer on the…
The New York Times discusses John Calipari’s “500” wins
The University of Hawaii won a men’s volleyball championship in 2002. Or did it? Coach John Calipari earned his 500th college basketball victory last season. Or did he? For dozens of universities across collegiate sports, for the players who competed, for the officials who whistled fouls and for the fans who paid for tickets, those…
Calipari invites all NBA teams to Kentucky Combine
John Calipari is inviting every NBA team to the Joe Craft Center to come and see his players work out. Josh Harrellson, DeAndre Liggins, Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones won’t get a ton of exposure to NBA teams from now until May 8th, so Cal is trying to help them out. This is what Calipari…
Doron Lamb announces that he will return for sophomore season
I really didn’t think he was going anywhere but UK made it official with this release today: “Kentucky freshman Doron Lamb has decided to return to Kentucky for his sophomore season and will not declare for the NBA Draft. Lamb, a 6-foot-4 guard from Queens, N.Y., was named to the Southeastern Conference All-Freshman Team by…
John Calipari offers scholarships to two new recruits
John Calipari always has a nitch for finding some of the best young talent. The Kentucky head coach did it again Thursday when he found his latest two recruits. 2013 6-foot-10 center Nerlens Noel (pictured courtesy Boston Herald) and 2014 6-foot-4 small forward Wayne Selden are both teammates at Tilton, a small private school in…
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…
For Calhoun and Calipari, It’s The Frigid Four
Most of all, I remember the empty orange chair. Fifteen years have come and gone. Fifteen Roads to fifteen Final Fours. Fifteen shining moments. But that day at the Basketball Hall of Fame there was only the vacant chair. I was writing then for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, the closest newspaper to the University of…