NASHVILLE, Tenn. — DeMarcus Cousins called it “good, clean, competitive basketball.” Daniel Orton called it “competitive spirit.” Whatever “it” was, it made Cats-Vols III feel at times like it would boil over into World War III. And “it” made UK play its best game of the year. Of all the unexpected turns in Saturday’s de [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When John Wall takes over, the results are staggering. If everything unfolds just right, UK can’t help but win despite its best efforts in out-bricking the opponent and winning the battle of futility on the glass. Both of those scenarios played out as picture-imperfectly as possible Friday afternoon for UK. But because [...]
How would you like to trade Memorial Coliseum for the Carrier Dome or another, better basketball locale? With a few changes, like a new head coach and six super recruits, consider it done. That is the difference between this time in 2009 and now. One new ambassador head coach and six recruits to mesh with [...]
In most college towns, any day in which the home team staples down a conference championship, clinching an undefeated home season in the process, is a pretty good day. At the very least, it should yield some sort of celebration. Not in Lexington. In Lexington, who has time to celebrate a hard-earned Southeastern Conference title? [...]
Let’s stop the charade we’ve been playing in college basketball for the past few years when it comes to the last home game of the season. You know what I’m talking about — Senior Day. The event that once celebrated the fact that college kids stayed four years, completed degrees and more all while playing [...]
ATHENS, Ga. — All the talk since Saturday’s loss has been that, well, UK’s all talk. From the perimeter, it can’t hit shots even though UK head coach John Calipari has insisted that this is not a poor shooting team. The talk was also that UK can’t rely on its shooters if DeMarcus Cousins isn’t [...]
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 [...]
With the first shot of the game, junior forward Patrick Patterson made his message clear — this is his team now and he will do everything he can to make sure the Cats aren’t going to lose again anytime soon. At least, that’s what he showed Rupp Arena on Thursday night. Facing a still-pesky South [...]
This is the day you’ve been waiting for since Jan. 26. It was circled on the calendar, especially after the South Carolina Student Government sent that snotty letter claiming supremacy. It didn’t become erased when the South Carolina Student Body President, Meredith Ross, sent her apology. Revenge has been in the air and on Thursday [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Since 2005 — UK basketball’s last win in Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gymnasium — the Cats’ football program has won four times in Nashville. Fittingly, it took a Rich Brooks-esque game to break the streak. Somewhere buried in the combined 47 personal fouls (28 in the second half), an Eric Bledsoe technical foul (that could’ve been [...]
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