You can already hear it in their comments. You can already easily read it between the lines. John Calipari‘s Kentucky Wildcats and Rick Pitino‘s Louisville Cardinals don’t meet until Saturday in the Final Four, but the signs are evident that this isn’t just the latest flare-up of their long-simmering rivalry, or even just an historic,…
John Calipari and Rick Pitino reverse roles for a Kentucky-Louisville Final Four showdown
Cover of the Official 2012 NCAA Men’s Final Four program
Cover of the Official 2012 NCAA Men’s Final Four program
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Baylor
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky improves to 36-2, while Baylor ends its season at 30-8. The Wildcats are 7-0 all-time against Baylor and 2-0 against the Bears in the NCAA Tournament. UK is now 109-46 in NCAA Tournament games. The Wildcats are 15-18 in NCAA Tournament regional final games. Kentucky is 68-29 all-time in…
Kidd-Gilchrist leads Kentucky to Final Four; named the most outstanding player of the South Regional
Kentucky is headed back to the Final Four. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 19 points and Anthony Davis added 18 as the Wildcats defeated Baylor, 82-70, in front of 24,035 in Sunday’s South Regional final at the Georgia Dome. As a result, top-seeded Kentucky (36-2) advanced to its second consecutive Final Four and 15th overall. It will…
Kentucky beats Baylor 82-70 to advance to it’s fifteenth Final Four to face Louisville
Top-seeded Kentucky cruised into the Final Four for the second year in a row, blitzing Baylor with a dominating first half on the way to an 82-70 rout at the South Regional on Sunday. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 19 points and the Wildcats (36-2) took control with an early 16-0 run. Kentucky led 42-22 at halftime…
Cats battle for fifteenth Final Four appearance
Last year, the Cats upset North Carolina to advance to the Final Four, but in the 2012 NCAA Tournament, as the No. 1 overall seed, they’re favored to win. UK (32-2) battles Baylor (27-7) in the Elite Eight for a chance to advance to its fifteenth Final Four appearance Sunday at 2:20 p.m. at the…
This time the Wildcats shot free throws like Kyle Macy
When it ended this time, Darius Miller was not on the court being swarmed by a knot of celebrating Indiana University basketball players. When the final seconds ticked away this time, Miller was walking along the University of Kentucky bench hugging all of his coaches and teammates. This is the reason: Beaten by one at…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Indiana
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Indiana
Kentucky knocks off Indiana 102-90 to advance to Elite Eight
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 24 points and Kentucky shook off a quiet night by freshman star Anthony Davis, pulling away from Indiana in a showdown of storied programs for a 102-90 victory Friday in the South Regional semifinals. Davis wasn’t a huge factor after picking up two early fouls, but the top-seeded Wildcats (35-2) had five…
The charm of ‘Catlanta,’ a home away from home for UK fans
During last week’s second and third rounds of the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky fans flooded the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville in a postseason practice that’s become an annual routine for Big Blue Nation. It was by no means out of the norm for blue to dominate an arena, especially considering the firs two rounds for…