Tag: SEC

Eric Bledsoe named SEC Freshman Of The Week

Kentucky’s Eric Bledsoe scored 24 points in his Wildcat debut, becoming the first Wildcat player since Sam Bowie in 1979 to score 20 or more points in their UK opener. Bledsoe also pulled down seven rebounds while coming up with two blocks and finished the game shooting 90 percent from the free throw line in…

Patrick Patterson: unanimous selection to the eight-man preseason Coaches’ All-SEC team

Here is the official release from the SEC:   BIRMINGHAM — The Southeastern Conference unveiled its sixth annual men’s basketball coaches preseason All-SEC first and second teams Monday, tipping off another great season of SEC men’s basketball.   Twenty-seven different players received votes for the teams and Kentucky, Ole Miss, South Carolina and Tennessee led…

Kentucky basketball will never dominate the SEC as it did during the Rupp era

However, we’re also far beyond the era where only one team from a conference could make the NCAAs.  If Calipari can keep bringing in the recruits and keep NCAA Compliance Investigators out of the picture, he won’t need to win 10 SEC titles in a row to keep his team a constant national contender.  The beginning…