Go here for boxscore. Team Notes This was the fifth year that the Blue/White Game was played in Rupp Arena. The win marks the 11th 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 2007-08). UK returns to…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Blue-White Scrimmage
Jeff Sheppard a successful businessman in Big Blue Country
After leading the Kentucky Wildcats to the 1998 NCAA championship with his Most Outstanding Player performance, Jeff Sheppard played four years of professional basketball before settling down to raise a family in London, Ky., which is located 70 miles south of the Lexington’s UK campus. Sheppard and his wife, the former Stacey Reed, met at…
NCAA says Nerlens Noel has been cleared to compete
University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari said during an interview on ESPN on Wednesday morning that star freshman Nerlens Noel “is cleared to practice and cleared to play games.” Wednesday afternoon, NCAA spokesman Bob Williams confirmed that in an email to USA TODAY Sports. “Nerlens Noel is cleared to practice and compete,” Williams wrote. …
Kentucky ranked No. 3 in preseason coaches poll
Is it really that time of the year already? On Wednesday, USA Today released its preseason coaches poll and the defending national champion Kentucky Wildcats check in at No. 3. John Calipari loses his top six scorers and all five starters, but UK still received five of 31 first-place votes based on its fourth straight top-ranked recruiting…
Former Kentucky walk-on Jim Duff has made a big mark in a different ‘court’
Not many people go from walk-on basketball player at Kentucky to playing hoops on “the highest court in the land.” Jim Duff has. During the 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Duff was at the elbow of his then-boss, Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, as the latter presided over the deliberations in the…
A complete video recap of Big Blue Madness
A complete video recap of Big Blue Madness
Video: The Wildcats put on a show at Big Blue Madness
Video: The Wildcats put on a show at Big Blue Madness
2012 Big Blue Madness On-court Video Show
2012 Big Blue Madness Kentucky Men’s Basketball Intro Video
Kenny Rollins, former member of Kentucky Fab Five, dies
Kenny Rollins, a member of Kentucky basketball’s Fabulous Five, passed away late Tuesday night. Rollins, who turned 89 on Sept. 14, was a guard on UK‘s 1948 national championship team that became known as the Fabulous Five. “He was a pretty good basketball player, but he was a great father,” said his son, Kevin Rollins.…
Calipari keeps rolling as Harrison twins pick Kentucky
Thursday was going to be a huge day for somebody. When twins Aaron Harrison and Andrew Harrison announced their college decision live on national television, Kentucky scored yet another major victory on the recruiting trail and landed a backcourt capable of keeping the Wildcats in the Final Four field. It wasn’t a slam dunk for John Calipari and the Wildcats as the 6-foot-5…