All Entries Tagged With: "Kentucky basketball"
Anthony Davis SEC POY credentials
Is the SEC Player of the Year playing for the #1 team in the country? It’s not only possible, but likely in the form of freshman Anthony Davis. If he’s not the POY, he’s easily Freshman of the Year, although Jimmy Dykes may have already given that honor to Jarnell Stokes of Tennessee. Davis, who [...]
Recruiting: Walker says Kentucky not interested
Chris Walker, a 2013 five-star forward, says Kentucky is currently not interested in him, but they are still in his top-10. Walker tweeted today that Calipari is currently not showing him the love. “UK not interested in me so ill do the same when they get interested I will also,” Walker said via his twitter [...]
Step back from that ledge my friends, Teague will be fine
The latest hot topic in the land of Kentucky basketball is the issue of highly-touted point guard Marquis Teague and his ridiculous turnovers. Admittedly so, there have been some bad ones, but he’s also just four games in to his freshman season. Kentucky is also 4-0 with Teague playing big minutes in all of those. [...]
Recruiting Notebook: 11/22
As if the early signing period didn’t provide enough recruiting information for you Big Blue crazies, there is a ton of buzz right now around the Kentucky basketball program regarding the 2013 class. John Calipari has been pulling double duty so far in the infancy of this basketball season, continuing his recruiting after winning the [...]
Calipari talks 2012 signees
After getting Willie Cauley, Alex Poythress, and Archie Goodwin in the fold during the 2012 early signing period, John Calipari finally spoke briefly on each of his newest Wildcats. Calipari has enjoyed the top recruiting class in each of his first three years on the job at Kentucky, and with this class, he’s shooting for [...]
Jay Bilas shows Kentucky love in SLAM Magazine
Former Dukie and ESPN College Basketball analyst Jay Bilas was recently interviewed by SLAM Magazine previewing the 2011-12 college basketball season. Bilas is one of the most respected and well-spoken analyst that ESPN has to offer and helps make up the College Gameday Crew on Saturdays. In the SLAM article, Bilas had some really strong [...]
National Signing Day: Are Goodwin and Cauley enough?
The 2012 recruiting class for Kentucky has two commitments right now. Willie Cauley is officially in the fold as he signed is letter of intent today on National Signing Day. Archie Goodwin is expected to sign his later this week. But what if guys like Gary Harris, Alex Poythress, Shabazz Muhammad and others end up [...]
Kentucky recruiting notebook: 11/8
Tomorrow is National Signing Day and pieces are starting to fall all around the recruiting scene. There are several Kentucky recruits who are rumored to be making their decision this week, but will any ultimately choose the Cats? Often recruiting analysts will have a pretty good feel on where guys will end up. Now, more [...]
Kentucky wins by one million over Morehouse: What we learned
It’s rare that a basketball team at any level wins by 85 points at any level. It may as well have been one million. Morehouse, from the outset, was completely overmatched and Kentucky clearly got the message sent by John Calipari after their first exhibition game that was a tad closer. As Nick has eluded [...]
Final Exhibition: Morehouse at Kentucky
John Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats will play their second and final tune-up game in tonight’s exhibition against Morehouse at 7:00 p.m. at Rupp Arena. The first exhibition wasn’t pretty, but Kentucky accomplished some things against Transylvania. However Cal made it clear that his team still have plenty to work on. Calipari told the world that freshman [...]
Thoughts on the Stacey Poole situation
There is nothing more difficult than seeing parents of grown men try and make life-changing decisions for them. It happens all too often that parents try to enforce their will on their children to make decisions that they would like rather than considering what the son or daughter wants for themselves. Should parents be involved [...]
Cats beat Transy: What we learned
Kentucky finally got the opportunity to play against someone other then themselves Monday when they rekindled their century long rivalry in Rupp Arena. Transy, a Division 3 school who is picked near the top of their conference in the preseason, gave the Wildcats a fight in the early minutes of the game. Kentucky came out [...]
Lockout hurting NBA Cats young and old
Today is the first day of the NBA season, however no games are being played. Brandon Knight, Josh Harrelson, and Deandre Liggins would all be making their NBA debuts this week. Three of the biggest components of last season’s Final Four squad are sitting at home waiting for the lockout to end, anxiously awaiting their [...]
Kentucky Recruiting Notebook: 11/1
John Calipari reeled in another big catch in 6-foot-10, 215 pound center Willie Cauley. The Kansas native somewhat surprisingly chose the Cats over instate Kansas State, Alabama and Florida. He said he chose the Cats because it gave him the best chance to reach his dreams and play in the NBA. The addition of Cauley [...]
Kentucky ranks number one in highest attendance per game
According to a report from Yahoo! Sports, Kentucky ranked highest in attendance per game in the 2010-11 season. Kentucky beat out Syracuse and Louisville for the top spot averaging 23,603 per game at Rupp Arena. That number actually surpasses the Chicago Bulls, who were the highest attended team in the NBA last season. This is [...]
