Ten standout players representing seven conferences have been selected to the 2011-12 U.S. Basketball Writers Association All-America Team. The first team consists of five forwards, as the USBWA selects the nation’s top five players regardless of position. Ohio State sophomore Jared Sullinger, last season’s winner of the Wayman Tisdale Award as the National Freshman of…
Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist named 2011-2012 USBWA All-Americans
Kentucky makes 52nd appearance in NCAA Tournament
After registering its NCAA record 13th 30-win season, the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team (32-2) will make its NCAA-leading 52nd NCAA Tournament appearance after earning the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed, it was announced Sunday night. Kentucky, which is the top seed in the South Region, will play the winner of the first-round game…
Davis, Jones named to 2012 SEC All-Tournament team
Davis, Jones named to SEC All-Tournament team
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky falls to 32-2, while Vanderbilt improves to 24-10. The Wildcats are 136-45 all-time against Vanderbilt and 4-4 against the Commodores in the SEC Tournament. Kentucky leads the SEC with 27 SEC Tournament titles. UK is now 119-23 in SEC Tournament games. The Wildcats 24-game winning streak ended, it was…
Vanderbilt shocks Kentucky, 71-64, wins SEC Tourney title
Jeffery Taylor scored 18 points and Vanderbilt rallied to beat No. 1 Kentucky 71-64 in the Southeastern Conference tournament championship game Sunday, ending the Wildcats’ 24-game winning streak. John Jenkins and Festus Ezeli both had 17 points for Vanderbilt (24-10), which was playing in its first SEC tournament final since 1951, the year of its…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Florida
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky improves to 32-1, while Florida falls to 23-10. The Wildcats are 93-33 all-time against Florida and 12-3 against the Gators in the SEC Tournament. Kentucky swept all three games against Florida for the first time since the 2004 season. It marks the first time UK has defeated the same…
Kentucky edges Florida, advances to SEC title game
Anthony Davis had 15 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 1 Kentucky held off Florida 74-71 on Saturday in the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament. Terrence Jones added 15 points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (32-1), who’ve won 24 straight games. Doron Lamb scored 16 points and Marquis Teague added 15, with each hitting a pair of key…
Jones, Kidd-Gilchrist help UK overcome ‘lackadaisical’ performance
The first one’s always the hardest, John Calipari said Thursday. Spoken like a prophet, his team struggled in the first game of its postseason. The top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats, heavy favorites to win their 28th Southeastern Conference Tournament title, needed herculean efforts from their frontline Friday to outlast a scrappy LSU team and advance to the…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. LSU
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. LSU
Memorable moments in Kentucky’s SEC Tournament history
John Calipari says he doesn’t care about the Southeastern Conference Tournament. He says it has no bearing on Kentucky’s NCAA Tournament seeding (which he may be right about). But he also said it’s a big deal to the fans, and he couldn’t be more right. In capturing 27th SEC Tournament titles over the years (the…