Kentucky Sports Radio
[Moderated by Matt Jones]
[Moderated by Matt Jones]
Recaping the “Games of Importance” from the weekend:
Kentucky (56) lost to Tennessee by 3
St. Josephs’s (55) lost to Temple by 1
UAB (54) beat Tulane by 25
Western Kentucky (53) beat Florida Atlantic by 10
Creighton (52) beat Bradley by 1 in double overtime
Syracuse (51) lost to Pittsburgh by 5
Florida (50) lost to Mississippi St. by 9
Ohio St. (49) lost to Minnesota by 17
Mississippi (48) beat Alabama by 3
Stephen F. Austin (47) lost to Texas Arlington by 10
VCU (46) beat William & Mary by 11
Thats a 5-5 week for the Cats, not bad, and it gives them a 4 spot jump to 52 in the RPI. We now enter the last week of the regular season and the Cats needing to get into the 40’s to feel secure. Here are the games to watch for:
Kentucky (52) on the road against South Carolina (Wed.)
UAB (51) at home against Tulsa (Wed.)
Creighton (50) in conference tournament against Bradley (Fri.)
Western Kentucky (49): won’t play until Sat. in conference tournament
Southern Illinois (48) in conference tournament against Northern Iowa (Fri.)
Texas Tech (47) on the road against Kansas (Mon.)
Texas A&M (46) on the road against Baylor (Wed.)
Mississippi (45) at home against Arkansas (Tues.)
VCU (44): won’t play until Sat. in conference tournament
Kansas St. (43) at home against Colorado (Tues.)
West Virginia (42) at home against Pittsburgh (Mon.)
1. Things have changed fairly drastically in the SEC Standings over the weekend, especially out west. So here are the updated standings and also the projected path UK would have to take to win the SEC Tournament, if it started today:
Quarterfinals: Mississippi/Georgia Winner
Semifinals: Mississippi St./Florida/Auburn Survivor
Finals: Tennessee/Vandy/LSU/Arkansas/South Carolina/Alabama Survivor
Still, the path to the title game is favorable. Cats need to earn that #2 seed.
2. As Eric Crawford points out in his article today, UK actually outplayed Tennessee in yesterday’s game, and despit the loss, it was a good day to be a Wildcat player.
3. John Clay makes a great point in his article in the Herald-Leader, UK seemed to be the much smarter team yesterday. It will be the downfall of UT in the NCAA Tournament in my opinion, the fact that they take WAY too many bad shots. They have the talent and play good enough of the defensive end of the floor, but the multitiude of bad shots thrown up by the Vols will end them, as long as you keep them off the glass, which the Cats failed to do in the second half.
4. Mark Story touches on whether Patrick Patterson is the greatest UK freshman in nearly 40 years, the likeability of Christian Laettner, and the political career of “Wah Wah” Jones.
5. If there is any Division 1 baseball team that has had a better start to its season than Kentucky, please point them out. Because yesterday the Cats wrapped up a 4-game sweep of Butler by scores of 14-1, 14-0, 21-2, and 12-4. UK has scored no less than 10 runs in ANY game this year while giving up no more than 5. So far this season, the Cats have outscored their opponents 121-21. Point being they are winning each game by an average score of 13-2. Maybe Xavier, Fairfield, South Alabama, Oakland, and Butler are the 5 worst teams in the country, I don’t know. But, I dont care who they are playing, this team is on fire and worth keeping an eye out for.
6. Digger Phelps in the man!!!! Although, since when is it “cool” to break out “Livin on a Prayer” at any moment of the day like these Kansas fans do.
7. A show that has started to grow on me is FoxSports “Sports Science”, where basically scientists perform experiements that are sports focused, such as “What has more energy, sumo wrestlers colliding or getting punched by a boxer?” By the way, its getting punched by a boxer. But, this test right here just borders on insane, and whats truly crazy is they actually found someone to risk their “manhood” for science. Understand that watching this video will hurt.
8. Shaq update: Suns moved to 2-4 with the “Big Diesel” in the lineup, dropping a 5-point decision to the SIXERS AT HOME!!!! Shaq’s averages so far: 10.3 PPG, 9.8 RPG. Shawn Marion’s averages in Miami: 16.8 PPG, 10.9 RPG and the Heat have won the same amount of games. Until they prove me wrong, this trade was VERY bad for the Suns.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
BatCats kick tail and are going to make noise in the SEC
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:05 am
Digger is far from The Man. He’s a petty, inarticulate lout. And those are his good points.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
that video of Digger was funny as hell
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 am
Fox Sports has us as a 12 in the tourny.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
“likeability of Christian Laettner”???????????????
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
any news on Hopson yet.. i would love to see Billy G get him and has anyone heard anything about the mackey kid
GO CATS
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:27 am
Yeah he is a crack dealer!
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 am
The Shaq and Marion swap won’t be a good trade until next year when Marion would have left as he said he was going to do. He would have been a free agent after this season and what would Phx get for him then????? It won’t win any games for them this year, but it gets them a half of a loaf that they would not have gotten.
#7, we don’t know that. “Intent to sell” is simply the amount he had in his posession, not what he would do with it. Just trying to be factually correct, Mackey needs to get his life in order and then maybe he can play at some sub-standard school like UL or UNLV or some other places that has low standards.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 am
Great quote by a guy who gets IT!!!!! “You can take guys away,” senior Ramel Bradley said. “But we won’t stop being Kentucky.”
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
so i take it kids dont desrve second chances
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
10) there’s no guarentee he isn’t going to prison, so why dont we see how that plays out before we put a college basketball jersey on him
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“BTI” Please admit that Marion was at least gone at the end of the season anyway, so it was worth a risk.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
IMO Bud Mackey will walk on here at UK under the guidelines that he can not make any mistakes for the first year. If he passes he will be granted a scholarship. That is if and only if he is not in prison. I dont think BCG offers him a scholly out of high school.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I would love to see Dicker Phelps dropped in the back country
of the Amazon jungle filled with 600lb gorillas, while sporting a
8 pound banana protruding from his anus.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
disagree Digger is always praising the wildcats
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
yes Mackey deserves a chance…. he will not go to prison… i work in law enforcement and have seen far worse amount than what he had and all the received was probation… if anything…. and if we can get a waslk on like him and not have to use a scholly that will help and yes i agree if he messes up he is gone right away… i hate phelps and all oh espn
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
maybe jay bilas though
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 pm
That was a great game yesterday by a team that has become one of my favorites in the past 10
years. Also, Digger is not the man. I think he predicted UK to lose every game in the ‘98 NCAA
tournament. He hasn’t liked UK since we continually beat his over-rated Notre Dame teams.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
12) I agree Marion would be gone at the end of the year and because of that I understand the trade, my problem with the entire trade was people kept aying they would not win a title with Marion so they had to make a trade, but in my opinion they cant win a title win Shaq either, and all they did was hurt their team, the Suns are not as good a team as they were with Marion, but they were not gonna win the title win either guy, I just feel like I would want to put the best team I could out on the floor and IMO they are WORSE with Shaq, and so far it appears that way
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Well technically BTI wrote “Digger IN the man” so maybe he was thinking that Digger would have have filled in nicely for Eugene Levy in his role in the movie “The Man.”
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
How about crediting Awful Announcing and/or TBL (or whever else you saw it) for the Digger clip?
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Was Digger in that video? I better watch again.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Digger has been supporting UK this year for some reason. It’s different, but hey, I’ll take it.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
21) Does it bother you that I dont attribute EVERY clip I put on here, I got it from Youtube if you must know, and frankly those websites only care about getting the hits which they get whether I mention them or not
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
BTI — i can agree with that.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Any news on Meeks. I don’t feel real confident with Porter if Bradley or Crawford get in foul trouble
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
I think #13 has it pegged. He would walk-on and we all know Gillispie has a zero tolerance walk-on policy. I think, though, that a scholarship may be in after 2 years of good behavior and good play. He would definitely be a great walk-on. How often can you get a 4 star top 40 kid to walk on?
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
It’s ALWAYS an appropriate time to break out “Living On A Prayer”!
(Spoken by a Bon Jovi fan of 22 years who just saw them live on Thursday night
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
How about “Scratch Cats” for a name?
scratch = to scrape or dig, collect with difficulty or by effort, to make a living by hard work and especially through irregular means and sacrifice.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Here is what UK’s real path is going to be:
Thursday against Alabama
Friday against Arkansas
Saturday against Tennessee/LSU/South Carolina winner
Sunday against Florida/Auburn/Miss State/Ole Miss/Georgia/Vanderbilt winner
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
30) how do you figure, I am assuming you are predicting how the teams would finish and I would also assume you were guessing UK is the #3 seed
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
East
1. Tennessee is pretty much locked in. No way they lose to South Carolina at home and they probably beat Florida on the road too.
2. Vandy gets the tie break because I think they will win out. They are untouchable at home and Bama sucks.
3. The Cats only win one of two to fall into a tie with Vandy and thus get the three.
4. Florida has the 4 locked up.
5. South Carolina will most likely get the five because Georgia is not going to win out.
6. Georgia gets the 6.
West
1. Miss State has already clinched the 1.
2. Arkansas has already clinched the 2.
3. Ole Miss goes 1-1 gets the tiebreak because they beat Miss State.
4. LSU goes 1-1 to get the 4.
5. Auburn goes 1-1 to get the 5.
6. Bama loses out to get 6.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
32) OK, thanks, that what I thought you were saying, how much is gonna ride on that Florida game if UK beats South Carolina, it will be one of the bigger games in the past 10 years in the sense of implications
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Bryan,
I think UT’s downfall is there downfall along with bad shots. If we score 60 points against you on your home court and 71 or so the first time we played them then your not good defensively. We were better offensively but still not a top defense. A team like UCLA, Kansas, Indiana, and UofL would spank UT because they would limit them offensively and would score inside or outside on them all day long. IMO UT will not make it past the Sweet 16 this year. They just aren’t that good. You might say well they beat Memphis, but I don’t think Memphis will get past the Sweet 16 either.
Somehow you guys should set it up to where everyone can fill out a bracket on the site and have a tournament. I don’t know if you did it last year or not, but it would be cool.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:52 pm
The team to beat in the SEC for me is MSU. Vandy is no good on the road and UT cannot beat any of the teams I mentioned above.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 pm
UT’s Defense in their downfall I meant.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
The Cats will make a run at it if everyone plays above there level of talent during the sec tourny with there ability to play slow and with bradley and joes ability to score wtach out for them in the SEC that is if someone can take out vandy or Tenn before we meet them… we have the advantage on a neutral floor
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
You left off Ohio State against Purdue. They may not be ahead of us in RPI anymore, but they’re still a bubble team with it’s back to the wall. Should Purdue win, it would all but eliminate the Buckeyes from an at-large bid. They would be 17-13 on the season, with the last game against Michigan State.
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