Go here for boxscore. Kentucky is 11-0 while Austin Peay is 7-5, ending a five-game winning streak for the Governors. Kentucky’s 11-0 start is its best since the 1992-93 squad that opened with 11 consecutive wins. This is the 12 th time in school history that the Wildcats have begun a season with at…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Austin Peay
Eric Bledsoe scores 23 as Kentucky beats Indiana 90-73
Eric Bledsoe scored 23 points and Patrick Patterson had 19 and 11 rebounds to lead No. 4 Kentucky to a 90-73 victory over Indiana on Saturday. The Wildcats have won an all-time leading 1,998 games, and John Calipari matched Adolph Rupp’s record start for a first-year Kentucky coach by improving to 10-0. Read article.
No. 5 Kentucky edges No. 10 North Carolina 68-66
John Wall wasn’t going to let anything stop him from playing North Carolina, not even the superstar point guard’s biggest fear: needles. The Kentucky freshman bounced back from a bout with dehydration and a queasy encounter with an IV drip to finish with 16 points – including the clinching free throws with 4.3 seconds left…
Calipari made Cousins attempt 250 free throws during recent practice
DeMarcus Cousins is spending extra practice times these days shooting free throws. After the trip to Cancun, which saw Cousins purposely miss a free throw, coach John Calipari made his freshman big man attempt 250 free throws during one practice. Read article.
John Wall’s clutch free-throws came on the heels of another Kobe-style icewater jumper
Even with Kentucky’s apparent growing pains in terms of defense and turnovers, nobody could have predicted that a team picked tenth in the Pac-10 that already has losses to San Diego and Oral Roberts would be able to hang with John Calipari’s stable of Wildcat stars in the finals of the Cancun Challenge — even…
Double-doubles by Patterson and Wall power Cats past Broncs 92-63
Freshman John Wall had 21 points and 11 assists as No. 4 Kentucky dominated Rider 92-63 on Saturday in the Cancun Challenge. Patrick Patterson added 19 points and a career-high 18 rebounds for the Wildcats (4-0). The team hardly looked like the one coach John Calipari called the “worst” defensive team he’s seen in 20…
Cats open Calipari Era with 75-59 victory over Morehead
Kentucky freshman Eric Bledsoe scored 24 points while starting in place of John Wall, and the fourth-ranked Wildcats opened the John Calipari era with a 75-59 win over Morehead State on Friday night. Patrick Patterson added 20 points – including his first career 3-pointer – to go with 12 rebounds, and Darnell Dodson had 15…
The state of Kentucky is wild about new coach John Calipari and the Wildcats
It was 8:20 p.m. at Kentucky’s annual Big Blue Madness at Rupp Arena and the house was rocking like post time on the first Saturday in May. More than 24,000 rabid fans, many of whom had camped out for three days in 500 tents set up outside the Craft Center, were hoping for the chance…
John Wall goes for 27 as No. 4 Kentucky Rolls Past Clarion in exhibition
John Wall scored 27 points in his collegiate debut and No. 4 Kentucky rolled past Clarion 117-52 on Friday night in an exhibition game. Wall was forced to sit out Kentucky’s exhibition opener on Monday as part of an NCAA suspension for accepting improper benefits from his former AAU coach. He didn’t waste any time…
Red-hot rivalry is ready to burn across the Kentucky bluegrass
Players on the Louisville men’s basketball team are acutely aware of the fuss new Kentucky coach John Calipari has generated some 70 miles away in Lexington and all over the hoops-crazed state starved for another NCAA championship. For months now, the Cardinals have listened to fans make comparisons between Calipari, 50, and their coach, Rick…