October 6, 2013
After the first quarter in Columbia, I’m pretty sure most Kentucky fans had that old familiar feeling. Down 14-0 with Sandstorm ringing in our ears and the South Carolina offense moving the ball at will, this game had the feeling of a Steve Spurrier shutout. But this is not your old familiar Kentucky team. The…
A game that was destined for disaster transformed into what will be looked at as a turning point in the Kentucky football program. The game started sour, with the Cocks reeling off two quick scores while the UK offense was doing the exact opposite, running only 9 plays in the first quarter. With Jalen Whitlow…
October 4, 2013
John Calipari made a surprise appearance on Kentucky Sports Radio this morning to talk about his team and the record crowd at Big Blue Madness Campout. In true Cal form, he killed it. Here are some highlights: On the message the crowd at campout delivers to his players: “This isn’t for funsies here. You gotta…
October 2, 2013
All we’ve heard since the first day Julius Randle set foot on campus is that he and Alex Poythress are going at each other in the gym and in the weight room. What Julius is doing, Alex is matching. What Alex is doing, Julius is matching. It’s a war between the two power forwards,…
October 1, 2013
There was a time when many of the so-called recruiting experts believed John Calipari would lose the Julius Randle Sweepstakes. In fact, ESPN’s Dave Telep and Scout.com’s Brian Snow predicted Randle to Kansas in the final moments of his recruitment. Randle, however, knew he would end up in Lexington all along. “This is the…
Last month John Calipari sat down with some of the finest media members Lexington, Kentucky has to offer, and Ryan Lemond, to discuss the upcoming 2013-14 college basketball season and his University of Kentucky Wildcats. The interview was embargoed until October 1, but now it’s free to roam the internets without restriction. Rather than…
September 30, 2013
Coach Stoops began this morning’s press conference with what is probably the longest narrative of his head coaching career. After watching film from Saturday’s game, Stoops took away 3 Main Points of emphasis: 1. Film showed that it wasn’t as bad as we thought it was, with players fighting “extremely hard on both sides of…
September 28, 2013
For 2 quarters the #BBN had high hopes for a Florida upset. The next two quarters weren’t so pretty. Matt Jones (of all the names) ate away at the Kentucky defense bit by bit on his way to recording 176 yards on the ground- 3 more total yards than the Kentucky offense. Jones joined Cat-killer…
September 26, 2013
As part of the never-ending quest to bring you University of Kentucky news in the most ridiculous manner possible, I comb the Twitter-verse each week for the funniest, oddest, and sometimes, nearly illegible tweets from your favorite players and personalities. Basically, I read Twitter so you don’t have to. Without further ado, here are the…
KEY STORYLINES/MATCHUPS Fast start. Remember that first-quarter debacle at The Swamp in 2008, with two blocked punts? Starting with that game, Kentucky has not produced a first-quarter touchdown against the Gators. Over the last five seasons, the scores (in favor of Florida) after one quarter have been 28-0, 31-0, 14-0, 21-3 and last year’s 3-0.…
March 7, 2021
COVID-19 has dramatically shifted the recruiting scene over the last year, but Kentucky was already exploring new approaches beforehand. Since the spring of 2020 and continuing through at least May 31 of 2021, in-person recruiting has been put on a halt by the NCAA, mucking up the process for the majority of high school recruits…
When it became set in stone that Kentucky would play Mississippi State in the first round of the SEC Tournament, I believe we all flashbacked 11 years prior to the 2010 SEC Championship – the last time Kentucky faced the Bulldogs in the conference’s postseason action. A younger Brad Nessler was still at ESPN, Coach…
March 6, 2021
Kentucky basketball’s first opponent in the SEC Tournament next week is official. Finishing the season 9-15 overall and 8-9 in league play, the Wildcats will take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Thursday, with tip-off scheduled for noon ET (11 a.m. CT) at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. UK locked up the No. 8 overall…
Davion Mintz received the green light to make it rain at Rupp Arena, helping the Cats run away with one of their biggest wins of the season, a 92-64 victory over South Carolina in the regular season finale. Mintz left the halftime locker room on fire. The senior who spent most of the game playing…
If you look at one side of the box score, you’ll find a blistering-hot shooting performance out of Kentucky graduate transfer Davion Mintz, with the dagger-throwing guard finishing with 20 points on 7-13 shooting and 6-11 from three. You look at the other side, and you’ll notice that in his debut performance as the team’s…
Closing out the regular season with a final record of 9-15, Kentucky failed to break the ten-win mark for the first time since 1926-27 and finished with a losing record in the Southeastern Conference for the first time since 1966-67. It was a nightmare 24-game slate for the program, one the players and coaches would…
It’s all smiles throughout the Bluegrass and BBN worldwide as the Cats end a disappointing regular season with 28-point win in Rupp Arena. South Carolina traveled to Lexington to make up a game originally scheduled to be the conference opener but was canceled due to COVID complications on the Gamecocks’ side. The end result of…
March 4, 2021
The first two years of Brad White’s tenure have been incredibly successful. Despite what was seen a massive rebuild ahead of the 2019 season, it was the first of two seasons where the Wildcats finished ranked in the top five nationally in pass defense, and those weren’t the only impressive statistical accomplishments. Entering year three,…
Kentucky’s win over Florida may not have been the prettiest victory, but it didn’t need to be. In the first game of the SEC Tournament, Kentucky pulled out a tight 73-64 victory over the Florida Gators. Kentucky may have won, but the game was far closer than need be. The Gators, for the second time…
John Calipari is still trying to figure out his rotations and best five with only one game to go in the regular season. He is still tweaking, he might say. Against Ole Miss, Calipari took the ball out of the hands of his 30-minutes-per-game point guard, Devin Askew, to see how Davion Mintz looked running…