Go here for boxscore. Kentucky is 11-5 overall, 2-1 in the SEC. Tennessee is 8-7, 0-3 in the league. Kentucky leads the series 149-66 and has won the last six meetings. Kentucky has played Tennessee more than any other opponent. Kentucky hits the road for a pair of away games, Saturday at Auburn (9 p.m.…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Tennessee
Kyle Wiltjer leads Kentucky past Tennessee for bounce-back win
Kyle Wiltjer scored 17 points and Kentucky avoided back-to-back Southeastern Conference losses by beating Tennessee 75-65 on Tuesday night. Nerlens Noel and Ryan Harrow each added 12 points and Alex Poythress 10 while Julius Mays contributed consecutive 3-pointers 1:48 apart late in the game to help the Wildcats (11-5,2-1). Jordan McRae’s 23 points led Tennessee (8-7), which lost its fourth straight and is…
Former Cat Travis Ford reflects on ’93 Final Four run
Final Four teams get a special spot in the hearts of Big Blue fans and it’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since the 1993 Kentucky teams took Wildcat fans on an incredible 30-4 run. It had only been five years since the last Final Four trip when probation hit the UK program in…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Texas A&M
Go here for boxscore. Opening its home Southeastern Conference schedule, Kentucky is 10-5 overall, 1-1 in the SEC. Texas A&M is 12-3, 2-0 in the league. The series is tied 2-2 with all games played in Lexington. This was the first men’s basketball meeting between UK and Texas A&M as members of the SEC. On…
Noel’s big night not enough; Cats fall to Texas A&M
Elston Turner scored 40 points for Texas A&M, and the Aggies topped Kentucky on the road Saturday, 83-71, for their first road conference win as members of the Southeastern Conference. The loss was the first home conference loss in John Calipari‘stenure as Kentucky’s coach. Kentucky had won 24 straight home SEC games before Saturday. Texas A&M…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt
Go here for boxscore. –With the win, Kentucky improves to 10-4 on the season and 1-0 in Southeastern Conference action. Vanderbilt falls to 6-6 and 0-1 in league play. —UK now leads the all-time series with Vanderbilt 137-45. –Kentucky is the all-time NCAA leader in wins and pushes its all-time win total to 2,100 with…
Kentucky fends off late Vanderbilt charge to win 60-58
Kyle Wiltjer‘s jumper with 1:57 left put Kentucky ahead to stay, and the Wildcats kicked off their Southeastern Conference schedule Thursday night by holding off Vanderbilt 60-58 after blowing a 16-point lead. The Wildcats (10-4) also seemed to get a bit of help from officials in the final seconds. Nerlen Noel hit a jumper with…
Willie Cauley-Stein named SEC Freshman of the Week
Willie Cauley-Stein, a 7-foot, 244-pound freshman forward from Olathe, Kan., was named SEC Freshman of the Week after scoring 11 points and gathering 11 rebounds against Eastern Michigan last week. Cauley-Stein made the most of his second career start en route to leading UK to a domination final non-conference action of the season. Cauley-Stein logged his…
Ryan Harrow has been arguably the Cats’ best player over the past five games
For the entire month of November, as Ryan Harrow struggled in the opener then missed 17 days and four games because of a mystery illness that has never been explained and a “family issue” that has remained equally unspecified, it was hard to imagine the sophomore point guard being a factor for the University of…
On this date in Kentucky basketball history…
Kentucky beats the overmatched Armoraiders of Fort Knox 64-30 in Alumni Gym on January 4, 1943. This marks the first win of what would become a record home court winning streak of 129 games. The overflowing crowd of 1,500 cheered on senior Milt Ticco, who scored 17 for the Cats. The streak went on for…