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…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt
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…
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. Vanderbilt
Go here for boxscore. Kentucky is 28-1 overall and has won 20 in a row. UK is 14-0 in Southeastern Conference play. Kentucky clinched the outright 2012 SEC championship, the 45th league crown in school history. Vanderbilt is 20-9 overall, 9-5 in the SEC. Kentucky leads the series 136-44, including 76-14 in Lexington. UK…
Anthony Davis leads Cats as Kentucky clinches 45th SEC title outright
Freshman Anthony Davis scored a career-high 28 points on 10-of-11 shooting, and No. 1 Kentucky beat Vanderbilt 83-74 on Saturday to win the Southeastern Conference regular season title for the 45th time. The Wildcats (28-1, 14-0) have won 51 straight at home and are on a 20-game winning streak overall. But Kentucky trailed at halftime and needed…
Cats withstand Memorial Magic in road win
John Calipari probably said more, but he only needed three words to get his pregame point across as No. 1 Kentucky prepared to take on Vanderbilt Saturday night. He scribbled them across the board in the UK locker room at Memorial Gym. “Love The Road,” he wrote. The Wildcats got the message. Kentucky blew a double-digit…
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Vanderbilt
Boxscore and Game Notes: Kentucky at Vanderbilt
Cats rally late, win 69-63 at Vanderbilt
Doron Lamb hit a 3-pointer with 3:18 left to put No. 1 Kentucky ahead to stay, and the Wildcats took a big step toward a Southeastern Conference regular-season title by beating Vanderbilt 69-63 Saturday night for their 17th straight win. Kentucky (25-1, 11-0) disrupted Vanderbilt with aggressive defense in the first half, and the Wildcats…
Former Cat Jim Master remembers Memorial
“I thought it was a great place to play and I even tell some of my buddies that it was one of my favorite places to play to shoot in.” So says one of UK‘s all-time best sharpshooters of Vanderbilt‘s Memorial Gymnasium, Jim Master. “It is a great shooting gym with the way it is…