Syracuse is No. 1 in The Associated Press’ Top 25 for a fourth straight week and Pittsburgh is out of the poll for the first time since the middle of 2009-10. The Orange received 60 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel. Kentucky, which moved up one spot to second, got the other five.…
Kentucky moves to No. 2 in AP poll; Louisville drops to No. 11
Kentucky moves to No. 2 in coaches poll; Louisville drops to No. 10
It wasn’t the prettiest of games or the most impressive of wins, but Kentucky beat Louisville 69-62 in a top-five matchup Saturday, bringing the Cats’ record to a sparkling 13-1. And after then-No. 2 Ohio State lost to Indiana later that day, the Buckeyes got bumped from the No. 2 spot in the USA TODAY/ESPN…
That was a true Bluegrass Battle
Rupp Arena sounded like an aviary after the refs whistled an astounding 51 fouls (plus two technicals). Neither Kentucky nor Louisville are consistently sharp in half-court execution as is, but the constant whistles took any semblance of flow out of the contest. The result was a ton of scrappy possessions, missed shots and over-the-back fouls.…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Louisville
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Louisville
Kentucky stuffs the birds of Louisville, 69-62
Freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had season-highs with 24 points and 19 rebounds to lead No. 3 Kentucky in a rough-and-tumble 69-62 victory over No. 4 Louisville on Saturday to extend the nation’s longest home winning streak. Fellow freshman Anthony Davis added 18 points, all in the second half, for the Wildcats (13-1) in their annual in-state…
Louisville vs. Kentucky is college basketball’s most heated rivalry
For all the (mostly deserved) flack the network gets, the 21st century sports fan is still forever indebted to ESPN for everything it’s done over the past 30 years. The world wide leader is the driving force behind the modern fan: the man or woman who can gleefully devote any given weekend to watching 48…
On this date in Kentucky basketball history (hint @rexchapman)…
Big Brother, indeed. Eddie Sutton proclaimed Kentucky the “Big Brother” of this rivalry and, as in the Orwellian vision, “Big Brother” was everywhere yesterday in smashing Louisville 85-51. How all-encompassing was it? The defeat was Louisville’s worst since Feb. 13, 1956 (Xavier 99, U of L 59). It was Louisville coach Denny Crum’s worst, period.…
On this date in Kentucky basketball history…
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…
Former Cat Walter McCarty on list of possible replacements at Boston University
Pat Chambers is Penn State’s newest coach, which means a variety of things, most notably that Penn State fans seem to be at least marginally excited about college basketball for the first time in, well, a long time. It also means Boston University is back at the drawing board. It was just two years ago…
Former Cat Steve Masiello a final candidate for Manhattan job
Manhattan offered the job to LIU coach Jim Ferry, but the two sides could not agree on the financials. Sources said Ferry was seeking in the neighborhood of seven years at $350,000 per, and the school is willing to pay more like $175,000, plus about $200,000 for the staff. The administration is now split between…