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…
Calipari invites all NBA teams to Kentucky Combine
Brandon Knight, Josh Harrellson named to CBS Sports NCAA All-tournament Team
Brandon Knight named to first team. Josh Harrellson was named to the second team: “The season now quickly fading from our site, we wanted to extend our coverage out as long as possible. So, approximately 40 hours removed from the end of the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball Division I tournament, here’s the First and Second…
Harrellson’s storybook season ends sadly, but Jorts made his mark
The Jorts joyride was a blast. Josh Harrellson and his feel-good, farewell tour with Kentucky basketball rolled through Tampa and Newark and became one of the major national story lines of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. How could you not find inspiration in the tale of a guy going from 6-foot-10 afterthought in 2010 to one…
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…
The nation just can’t get enough of Jorts
From Eric Lindsey of Cat Scratches: “One day after cutting down the nets in Newark, N.J., senior forward Josh Harrellson was on the Scott Van Pelt Show on Monday. You can listen to the podcast here. Make sure you listen to the end. You won’t want to miss the part about the bullet Josh Harrellson threw off Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger.” The bullet you can see again in the video below.
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. North Carolina
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. North Carolina
Josh Harrellson this year’s unlikely hero
In 2009, Josh Harrellson played so passively in a game at Vanderbilt that then-Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie, in a motivational ploy, ordered the then-sophomore out of his sight during a halftime speech. Rather than wait out in the hallway, as Gillispie assumed he would, Harrellson decided to head into the bathroom and take a seat…
The sequel to the Kanter saga? The feel-good story of Josh Harrellson
The hulking country boy from Missouri who didn’t play organized basketball until high school was an afterthought entering this season. He was hidden behind the buzz surrounding Turkish import Enes Kanter, a freshman center and consensus top-five recruit. Now, the overlooked center is the ever-increasing center of attention. UK senior Josh Harrellson‘s rise to prominence…
Oh Jorts, oh my! Josh Harrellson does it again
The absence of Enes Kanter was supposed to be the downfall of the Kentucky men’s basketball team this season. It turns out it may be the inspiration of UK‘s second consecutive run to the Elite Eight and the seeds of turning a young man’s mediocre college basketball career into the stuff of Kentucky lore. Surely,…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Ohio State
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Ohio State