Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Marist
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Marist
Kentucky rolls Marist in opener, 108-58
Freshman Anthony Davis had 23 points and 10 rebounds to join Terrence Jones and Sam Bowie as the only freshmen in Kentucky history with 20-10 games in their debuts, leading the second-ranked Wildcats to a 108-58 victory over Marist on Friday night. Davis attacked the rim in the opener, finishing 10 of 13 with eight dunks, as Kentucky…
Terrence Jones is on the cover of Sports Illustrated
Terrence Jones is on one of five regional covers for Sports Illustrated‘s basketball preview cover. North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes, Connecticut’s Jeremy Lamb, Kansas’ Thomas Robinson and UCLA’s Reeves Nelson were the others. UK was ranked No. 2 by SI. In its preview, SI writer Kelli Anderson examined the best-case scenario (“The young Wildcats live up to the…
Terrence Jones, Anthony Davis named ESPN Preseason All-Americans
Terrence Jones and freshman Anthony Davis were selected to the ESPN Preseason All-America team on Tuesday. Jones, the SEC media’s pick for league preseason Player of the Year, averaged 15.7 points and 8.8 rebounds last season helping guide the Wildcats to the Final Four. The 2011 Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year (league coaches) and…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Morehouse
Go here for boxscore. First-Half Facts Kentucky used the lineup of Marquis Teague, Darius Miller, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Terrence Jones and Anthony Davis. In contrast to the Transylvania game, in which the Pioneers took an early lead, Kentucky came out hot. The Wildcats jumped out to a 10-0 lead in less than two minutes…
Four Wildcats make the Naismith Award preseason Top 50 watch list
Anthony Davis, Terrence Jones, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague were each placed on the Naismith Award preseason watch list, according to CBS’ Jeff Goodman. Kentucky and North Carolina each had four players on the list. View the full list here.
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Transylvania
Go here for boxscore. Team Records and Series Info This was the first exhibition game for both teams. The all-time series in official games is tied 7-7 as the teams played from 1903-11. It has been 100 years since the teams played the last countable contest on March 3, 1911. Kentucky returns to…
Maturity, experience hope to push Terrence Jones to greatness
The idea — or maybe more accurately, the hope — was to take the all-boy bundle of energy and tire him out. Run him like you would a golden retriever puppy. And so Ava Mashia would pack everything she could get her hands on — football, basketball, tennis racket, baseball and bat — and grab…
Cats tease potential in Blue-White Scrimmage
With an entire SportsCenter episode’s worth of highlights, every reason for the Kentucky Wildcats’ high preseason ranking was on full display at Wednesday’s Blue-White Scrimmage. With an athletic and long combination of experienced and young talent, the Cats electrified fans with an arsenal of dunks, drives and alley oops as the Blue team defeated the…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Jones’ 52 points highlights Blue-White scrimmage
Go here for boxscore. Tonight’s attendance: 12,134 (2010-11 attendance: 11,391). This was the fourth year that the Blue-White Scrimmage was played in Rupp Arena. The win marks the 10th consecutive game that Blue has gone unbeaten in the Blue-White Scrimmage, with its last loss to White coming in 2000-01 (scrimmage not held in…