Tag: deandre liggins
Some DeAndre Liggins Thoughts and UK by the Numbers – 1/18
Ugh. Another week long break between ‘Cats games. UK has a few extra days to prepare for Arkansas on Saturday after three tight games to start SEC play. The break started today with the “Hoops for Haiti” telethon, which has eclipsed the $1,000,000 mark in funds raised with caller donations and matched funds. Cal has [...]
Let’s have some football fun with the UK basketball team
Rightfully so, today has been all about the Rick Pitino-Karen Sypher story. However, I’ve seen some people taking pleasure in a really, really bad situation, which is very difficult for me to understand. I decided I wanted to have some silly, pointless fun with UK basketball. We’ve got plenty to be excited about right now [...]
Kentucky officially finalizes roster
It’s been a long time coming, but today Kentucky has officially released its roster for the 2009-2010 basketball season. None of this is really new information, other than confirmation that guys like DeAndre Liggins and Josh Harrellson are on it. Last week, John Calipari made a comment that most of his rosters have “11 or [...]
An early look at UK’s ’09-’10 rotation
When I found out once and for all that Xavier Henry would stick with his Kansas commitment, I immediately started wondering “How is John Calipari going to structure the rotation for his first team at Kentucky?” I figured that the best predictor of next year’s rotation would be the rotations for Calipari’s last few teams [...]
Recapping a busy week for UK: Part 4-The roster situation
OK, we’re finally to the last issue that’s on mind surrounding Kentucky Basketball as we enter June (here are Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3). Without further ado: The roster situation – We did get some news on the roster front this week, as it was officially announced that Jared Carter, Donald Williams, and [...]
Tipton: UK to announce three off team
TIPTON’S BLOG – UK plans to announce Tuesday morning that three scholarship players will not be back on the team next season. The three include A.J. Stewart, Donald Williams and Jared Carter, UK said. An earlier version of this blog incorrectly listed DeAndre Liggins as one of the three. Stewart played sparingly for two seasons [...]
Andy Katz: UK on verge of roster cuts
ESPN – Kentucky coach John Calipari said late Thursday that he has already talked to three players who will not be returning in order to get the Wildcats down to the NCAA maximum of 13 scholarships. UK went over the maximum with the high-profile signings of John Wall, DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Bledsoe — coupled [...]
Wrapping up the weekend in UK news
Since Patrick Patterson’s announcement on Friday afternoon that he will return to Kentucky for his junior year, it’s been a pretty quiet weekend in terms of UK basketball news. The silence will stop tomorrow, however, as P-Double, himself, and Coach Calipari will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. discussing the awesomeness that is his [...]
DeAndre Liggins: If Gillispie had stayed it would have been “time to move on”
Larry Vaught spoke with DeAndre Liggins after UK’s final practice today and Liggins said that he had already made the decision to transfer prior to Billy Gillispie being fired. Once Billy G was out and Coach Calipari was in, though, DeAndre changed his mind. Liggins is excited about the freedom that Calipari’s offense gives to [...]
Kentucky Basketball recruiting/roster update: Current roster
It’s pretty much understood that there is going to be some significant turnover from last year’s Kentucky roster, even though only Jared Carter is the only player that we can be sure will not return. Let’s take a look at the players who are scheduled to return to UK next year and how they are [...]
The Strait Pinkie Squad discusses last night’s big win and much more.
Bobby E: Billy G was hammered no question last night. Wink: Yeah, Billy G was drunk but his arrogance is what kills me. He refuses to switch defenses despite his personnel. If he switches defenses in the South Carolina game it could have been a different outcome and i was so sick and tired of [...]
Post UK-South Carolina Thoughts
You just knew Devan Downey was going to hit that shot. It seemed like UK had tried to guard with pretty much everybody but Dwight Perry in the second half of UK’s 78-77 heartbreaking loss to South Carolina, but it really didn’t matter. Jodie Meeks was the last to get a crack at him, but [...]
Post UK-Ole Miss Thoughts
One of the words we’ve heard the most out of Billy Gillispie since he took the UK head coaching job almost 2 years ago now is “toughness”. Coach Gillispie admires toughness, demands toughness out of his players, and insists toughness be a hallmark of his teams. There have been times where I balked at the [...]
Post UK-Alabama Thoughts
Without a doubt, first and foremost among any fan’s postgame thoughts today have to be with Ramon Harris. The latest news we have at this point is that Harris collapsed outside of the locker room at halftime. Coach Gillispie said that he threw up, was taken to the hospital (and was conscious), and now is [...]
Post UK-Auburn Thoughts
That was one of those games that you’re glad wasn’t played on national TV. There was very little about UK’s 73-64 win over the Auburn Tigers that was pretty, exciting, or particularly enjoyable. It was one of those games that people will see on an ESPN ticker and think “Kentucky beat Auburn relatively handily, nothing [...]
Post UK-Georgia Thoughts
Sunday afternoon’s 68-45 win over Georgia may not have been the most enthralling SEC game you will see this season, but it was a very business-like performance by Kentucky, and it’s nice to have a team good enough to have a team that “takes care of business” and wins by 23. As gritty and determined [...]
Post UK-Vandy Thoughts
Things got a little nerve wracking at the end, but today Kentucky got just the win they needed in beating the Vanderbilt Commodores in both team’s SEC opener 70-60. UK built a 20 point lead with an excellent stretch of play at the end of the first half and beginning of the second half, but [...]
Post UK-CMU Thoughts
Everything pretty much went according to script to get that 11th win in an 84-52 win over the Chippewas of Central Michigan, other than a slight hiccup to start things that translated to an early 15-6 lead for CMU. The Cats got contributions from a variety of players, dealt well with the pressure and diverse [...]
Post UK-FAU Thoughts
If Kentucky’s too close for comfort 76-69 victory over a fearless Florida Atlantic team had come in an NCAA Tournament game, I’m sure the phrase “survive and advance” would have been bandied about quite a bit, because that sure is what that game felt like. Florida Atlantic hung around early with some baskets on less [...]
Post UK-Appalachian State Thoughts
I said during UK’s 93-69 victory that I don’t remember a scoring performance on par with Jodie’s 46 point effort against the Appalachian State Davy Joneses (doesn’t their mascot look like Davy Jones from Pirates of the Carribbean?). The first thing I did when I sat down to collect my thoughts on the game was [...]
