Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Louisville
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Louisville
Tom Leach’s top 10 Kentucky-Louisville basketball games
When Kentucky and Louisville square off Friday on the final day of 2010, it will mark the third time these two rivals have played on New Year’s Eve. The Cats won in 1996 while the Cards prevailed in 1988. That’s just one of many historical footnotes to the game on both teams’ schedules that means the most to their fans — outside of the NCAA Tournament, of course. With that in mind, here’s one man’s opinion on the top 10 games in the Battle of Bluegrass, which has been an annual affair since the 1983-84 season.
Kenny Payne returns to Louisville in Wildcat blue
Kenny Payne’s visits to Louisville in the two decades since he played for the Cardinals have typically been celebrations, a chance for the former small forward and his teammates on the 1986 national championship team to be cheered one more time. Things will likely be different on Friday. Very…
Kenny Payne is already nervous about the Kentucky-Louisville game
Kentucky assistant coach Kenny Payne knows the NCAA championship he helped win at Louisville looks good on his resume, but he knows his NBA experience brings him “instant credibility” that is even more important in recruiting. “What is instant credibility for kids? I want to be a NBA player. The moment you have been in the NBA and are coaching and talking to a kid, you have got his ear,” said Payne. “That’s what they want to hear and be associated with.
Kentucky winning another recruiting battle over Louisville recruit
Louisville lost an epic recruiting battle to Kentucky when Marquis Teague, the No. 1-ranked point guard in the 2011 class, turned down Louisville and committed to the Wildcats. History might very well repeat itself in the recruitment of Michael Chandler. The center already decommitted from Louisville earlier this spring, and now it looks like Kentucky…
Another Louisville basketball player in trouble
Louisville basketball player Preston Knowles supposedly beat down on his girlfriend’s stepdad this past Sunday. According to a police report, Bullitt County sheriff’s deputies were called to a Shepherdsville home Sunday around 9 p.m. after a verbal argument between Knowles and his girlfriend escalated. Police said the girl’s stepfather intervened in that verbal altercation and…
Extortion trial involving Rick Pitino will not be moved
A federal judge has denied a request to move the trial of a woman charged with trying to extort $10 million from University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III ruled Monday that Karen Cunagin Sypher couldn’t show that pretrial publicity warrants the unusual step of relocating the case.
John Wall playing beyond his years, stakes claim for national honors
John Wall knows when its winning time. In what had been his worst game as a collegian to that point, Kentucky’s star freshman showed why he’s the odds-on favorite for national Player of the Year as soon as Louisville had taken its first lead of the game at 42-41 midway through the second half. Read…
Video: John Wall’s spin move layup versus Louisville
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Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Louisville
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky is 15-0 while Louisville is 10-4, ending a five-game win streak by the Cardinals. Kentucky’s 15-0 start is its best since the 1969-70 squad opened with 15 consecutive wins. This is the fifth time in school history that the Wildcats have begun a season with at least 15 straight…