After a dominating run during the regular season, top-ranked Kentucky made it a clean sweep of the awards on The Associated Press All-Southeastern Conference team. Freshman forward Anthony Davis was a unanimous choice Monday for player of the year and newcomer of the year, while John Calipari took the coaching honor for the second time…
Kentucky’s Davis, Calipari sweep AP SEC honors
Davis, Jones named to 2012 SEC All-Tournament team
Davis, Jones named to SEC All-Tournament team
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky falls to 32-2, while Vanderbilt improves to 24-10. The Wildcats are 136-45 all-time against Vanderbilt and 4-4 against the Commodores in the SEC Tournament. Kentucky leads the SEC with 27 SEC Tournament titles. UK is now 119-23 in SEC Tournament games. The Wildcats 24-game winning streak ended, it was…
Vanderbilt shocks Kentucky, 71-64, wins SEC Tourney title
Jeffery Taylor scored 18 points and Vanderbilt rallied to beat No. 1 Kentucky 71-64 in the Southeastern Conference tournament championship game Sunday, ending the Wildcats’ 24-game winning streak. John Jenkins and Festus Ezeli both had 17 points for Vanderbilt (24-10), which was playing in its first SEC tournament final since 1951, the year of its…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Florida
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky improves to 32-1, while Florida falls to 23-10. The Wildcats are 93-33 all-time against Florida and 12-3 against the Gators in the SEC Tournament. Kentucky swept all three games against Florida for the first time since the 2004 season. It marks the first time UK has defeated the same…
Kentucky edges Florida, advances to SEC title game
Anthony Davis had 15 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 1 Kentucky held off Florida 74-71 on Saturday in the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament. Terrence Jones added 15 points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (32-1), who’ve won 24 straight games. Doron Lamb scored 16 points and Marquis Teague added 15, with each hitting a pair of key…
Jones, Kidd-Gilchrist help UK overcome ‘lackadaisical’ performance
The first one’s always the hardest, John Calipari said Thursday. Spoken like a prophet, his team struggled in the first game of its postseason. The top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats, heavy favorites to win their 28th Southeastern Conference Tournament title, needed herculean efforts from their frontline Friday to outlast a scrappy LSU team and advance to the…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. LSU
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. LSU
Kentucky outlasts LSU 60-51 to advance in SEC tourney
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 19 points and No. 1 Kentucky survived a feisty effort by heavy underdog LSU to take a 60-51 victory Friday in the second round of the Southeastern Conference tournament. Terrence Jones added 15 points and 11 rebounds, including a 9-0 run by himself that gave the Wildcats (31-1) the lead for good…
Memorable moments in Kentucky’s SEC Tournament history
John Calipari says he doesn’t care about the Southeastern Conference Tournament. He says it has no bearing on Kentucky’s NCAA Tournament seeding (which he may be right about). But he also said it’s a big deal to the fans, and he couldn’t be more right. In capturing 27th SEC Tournament titles over the years (the…