Familiar and fresh faces powered UK to a victory on Sunday. Junior second baseman Chris Bisson, a stalwart in the lineup, and catchers Michael Williams and Luke Maile, making their first appearances behind the plate, powered the offense as UK finished off a sweep of Bowling Green with a 10-4 victory on Sunday. With UK [...]
The No. 16 Cats (23-6, 11-5 Southeastern Conference) failed to bounce back from their loss at No. 4 Tennessee with a 65-53 loss against the Auburn Tigers (14-15, 5-11 SEC) in Auburn, Ala., on Sunday afternoon. Although UK already had secured second place in the SEC standings, and Auburn sat near the bottom of the [...]
What a mess being a voter in either the Associated Press or coaches poll will be on Monday. On the same day, both No. 1 Kansas and No. 2 UK lose by big margins. No. 3 Purdue has three losses and having just lost its best player, the Boilermaker’s don’t seem worthy of being the [...]
Welcome to tournament time, John Calipari and Co. For many, this is your first time. It’s not your coach’s first rodeo with this schedule, by far. But for most of you, this one-day break between games (at least on this level) is an unknown. Not any longer. You see, for most of the year, the [...]
It got a little shaky at the end, but UK ended up with the win. UK (5-0) had a burst of offense in the second inning and withstood a ninth-inning charge to grab a 4-3 victory over Bowling Green. The Cats plated four runs in the second inning to build a cushion that would last [...]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Against UK, everything is big. The Cats are used to the magnifying glass. For them, Saturday’s loss wasn’t much more than any other loss. Even though they, the nation’s No. 2 team (and No. 1 among the ranks of overachievers), faltered for just the second time this season they left Thompson-Boling Arena with [...]
- UK lost to Tennessee 74-65 to fall to 27-2 overall and 12-2 in Southeastern Conference play. Tennessee moves to 21-7 and 9-5 in the SEC. A UK win would have guaranteed at least a share of the SEC regular season title. – UK shot 24.1 percent in the first half and 35 percent for [...]
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – A Kentucky native buried the never-quit Cats (27-2, 12-2 Southeastern Conference) with 37.6 seconds remaining, and the 21,214 fans who packed Thompson-Boling Arena saw Tennessee’s second home victory this season over a top-2 team. The Volunteers (21-7, 9-5 SEC) built a 19-point lead with just over 14 minutes to play, but the [...]
UK head coach John Calipari talks to the media following UK’s 74-65 loss on the road to Tennessee. More Calipari on UK’s loss to the Volunteers. And here’s one more video from Calipari on the loss to Tennessee on Saturday afternoon. DeMarcus Cousins, Darius Miller and John Wall talk about the loss to Tennessee and [...]
Senior lefthanded pitcher James Paxton has left the UK baseball team nearly three months after initially filing a lawsuit against the university on Dec. 2, UK athletics confirmed in a statement late Friday night. “The University of Kentucky is very disappointed in James Paxton’s decision to not meet with the NCAA about a potential amateurism [...]
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