Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Mississippi State
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Mississippi State
Kentucky gets over The Hump, tops Mississippi State, 73-64
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist scored 18 points, Anthony Davis added 13 points and 11 rebounds and No. 1 Kentucky rallied to beat Mississippi State 73-64 Tuesday night. The Wildcats (27-1, 13-0 Southeastern Conference) trailed 41-28 at halftime, but slowly climbed back to take their first lead at 63-62 with 4:11 remaining on a layup by Kidd-Gilchrist. They…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Ole Miss
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Ole Miss
Cats use balanced attack to down Ole Miss
As motivation to keep the Rupp Arena crowd rowdy, Kentucky coach John Calipari has said when the Wildcats lose home games, he won’t stick around to sign autographs. Three years into his tenure, he’s still signed after every home game. Terrence Jones had 15 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 1 Kentucky to a 77-62 victory…
Cats withstand Memorial Magic in road win
John Calipari probably said more, but he only needed three words to get his pregame point across as No. 1 Kentucky prepared to take on Vanderbilt Saturday night. He scribbled them across the board in the UK locker room at Memorial Gym. “Love The Road,” he wrote. The Wildcats got the message. Kentucky blew a double-digit…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Vanderbilt
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Vanderbilt
Cats rally late, win 69-63 at Vanderbilt
Doron Lamb hit a 3-pointer with 3:18 left to put No. 1 Kentucky ahead to stay, and the Wildcats took a big step toward a Southeastern Conference regular-season title by beating Vanderbilt 69-63 Saturday night for their 17th straight win. Kentucky (25-1, 11-0) disrupted Vanderbilt with aggressive defense in the first half, and the Wildcats…
Former Cat Jim Master remembers Memorial
“I thought it was a great place to play and I even tell some of my buddies that it was one of my favorite places to play to shoot in.” So says one of UK’s all-time best sharpshooters of Vanderbilt‘s Memorial Gymnasium, Jim Master. “It is a great shooting gym with the way it is…
Reliving Nazr Mohammed’s Memorial magic
On Jan. 27, 1998, the No. 7 Kentucky Wildcats entered its contest in Memorial Gymnasium against the Vanderbilt Commodores with an overall record of 18-2 and a perfect SEC mark of 7-0. It was Tubby Smith‘s first year as the head coach of the Wildcats, and he had his club rolling along as winners of eight straight, with…
Marquis Teague shows he may be floor leader No. 1 Kentucky needs
The Marquis Teague Project is making progress. John Calipari does this every year. He takes a five-star recruit with all the physical tools to be a great point guard, and melds him into someone who can actually run a team. The first few months with Teague were a real struggle, though, and the Wildcats were…