On December 23, 1995, No. 4 Kentucky clobbered Louisville, 89-66. Louisville had upset Kentucky in a New Year’s Day matchup the previous season and a Kentucky team that would win the school’s sixth national title was ready to send a message about where it was headed that season. Tony Delk torched the Cards for 30…
On this date in Kentucky basketball history…
Former Cat Cameron Mills keeps busy by putting faith first
A great number of Wildcats from the championship teams in the 1990s would go on to play in the NBA. Greats like Walter McCarty, Tony Delk, Jeff Sheppard and Derek Anderson are just a few on the seemingly endless list of former Cats to suit up as pros. One vital piece to those championship puzzles,…
More than a century of glorious Kentucky basketball sights and sounds…
When one sport, one school, one supreme program so dominates a state, you can take its measure with sounds alone. Cock an ear to the sound track of more than a century of basketball in the Bluegrass State and you’ll hear: The buzz of the Hyatt lobby in advance of a game at Rupp…
New Mexico St. hires former Cat Tony Delk as assistant coach
Former Kentucky standout and NBA veteran Tony Delk has been hired as an assistant basketball coach at New Mexico State. Head basketball coach Marvin Menzies announced the hiring Saturday. Delk spent the last two seasons as assistant director of basketball operations at Kentucky under coach John Calipari. As a player at Kentucky, Delk was a…
Kentucky Wildcats of 1996 among most memorable teams
From the photo archives of Sports Illustrated comes a story in, you guessed it, photos: “If UNLV’s ’91 team (somehow) isn’t considered the best college team of the last two decades, then these Wildcats are. UK was loaded with NBA talent, headed by Tony Delk, Antoine Walker, Derek Anderson, Ron Mercer and Walter McCarty. The…
Tony Delk on his role with coaches, players
Tony Delk was a three-time all-Southeastern Conference performer at Kentucky, played on UK’s 1996 national championship team and scored 1,890 points. He was a first-round NBA draft pick in 1996 and played in the NBA until 1996 before briefly playing in Greece and playing and coaching in Puerto Rico. He returned to…
Where Are They Now: NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Players Of The Past 25 Years
Good read from Aron Phillips of DimeMag.com: “Yesterday was my 25th birthday. I know, kinda crazy. So with the National Championship game last night, I figured I’d look back at the past 25 years of the Big Dance. At the end of the Final Four, the Associated Press always selects a Most Outstanding Player (last…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. East Tennessee State
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky improves to 33-2 on the season while East Tennessee State is now 20-15. UK is 3-0 in the series against the Buccaneers. The Wildcats are 99-44 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. UK is 4-2 in NCAA Tournament games played in the New Orleans metro area. UK also is 40-10…
Cats coast to easy win in New Orleans, beat East Tennessee State 100-71
Eric Bledsoe’s eight 3-pointers set a Kentucky record for an NCAA tournament game, and the top-seeded Wildcats dominated throughout in a 100-71 victory over East Tennessee State on Thursday night in the first round of the East Regional. Scoring 29 points in all, Bledsoe started 8 of 8 on 3s before finally missing his first…