January 8, 2021
This weekend’s SEC basketball schedule has been tweaked as Missouri shuts down its basketball activities due to COVID. Cuonzo Martin’s program was hit with, “a combination of positive tests, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of individuals,” according to the league. The Tigers were set to play the other Tigers, the LSU ones, but that game…
December 28, 2020
Kentucky will not add a non-conference opponent this week after all. There was talk that Hartford or Bellarmine could find their way onto UK’s schedule Tuesday night in the vacancy left open by South Carolina. Originally scheduled as the SEC opener for both the Cats and Gamecocks, South Carolina shut down its program due to…
December 23, 2020
Kentucky’s Southeastern Conference opener got delayed as South Carolina paused basketball activities due to COVID. Originally set for next Tuesday, December 29, the game is postponed with no makeup date arranged just yet. Kentucky will now tip off SEC play down in Starkville on Saturday, January 2. However, John Calipari may elect to add one…
December 5, 2020
Make it six wins in seven years for your University of Kentucky Wildcats over SEC East rival South Carolina. Kentucky honored nineteen seniors in a socially-distanced pregame ceremony, then came together to close out the regular season with a 41-18 victory over the Gamecocks. Here’s a look at part of the pregame send-off: Thank you…
June 2, 2020
With schools across the country preparing to bring players back to campus amid the pandemic, one prominent coach in the SEC is speaking up about his own experience with coronavirus. Today, South Carolina’s Frank Martin revealed that he tested positive for COVID-19 in May while preparing to get knee replacement surgery. Thankfully, he has recovered,…
February 21, 2020
Kentucky couldn’t have picked a more opportune time to start playing its best basketball of the season. Coming off a 94-52 beatdown of the Ole Miss Rebels on Thursday night, the lady Wildcats are staring down their toughest challenge of the year; No. 1 South Carolina comes to Lexington for a showdown between top-15 teams…
January 15, 2020
Zero — Victories in SEC play by Frank Martin’s team after two attempts. They’ve lost three-straight since defeating Virginia in Charlottesville. 2 — South Carolina players average more than ten points per game, Maik Kotsar (10.7 pts., 6.3 rebs.) and A.J. Lawson (14.5 ppg.). 3 — Times John Calipari has lost at South Carolina. He…
1. Two man show The two best players taking the floor for South Carolina tonight are the only two players scoring in double-figures on the season, AJ Lawson and Maik Kotsar. Lawson is a 6’6″ sophomore from Toronto who is leading the team at 14.5 points per game. He’s also averaging 3.1 rebounds, 2.4 assists,…
South Carolina is 8-7, 0-2 in the Southeastern Conference after dropping games to Florida and at Tennessee. Just before SEC play began, the Gamecocks dropped a shocker at home to Stetson after back-to-back impressive road wins at Clemson and Virginia. Coach Frank Martin’s squad is getting the job done on the defensive end by holding…
Brace yourself. Sandstorm is coming. Tonight, Kentucky will take on the South Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia, the Cats’ second SEC road game of the season. It will be a rare 6:30 p.m. tip on the SEC Network, so prepare accordingly. While the Cats are riding a four-game winning streak, the Gamecocks have dropped their last…