Tag: Mississippi State Bulldogs
The Pinkie Previews the SEC West
With college basketball tipping off this week (finally) and Kentucky playing its first game on Friday, the wait is over. However, we’ve spent almost all of our energy here on the Pinkie thinking about the ‘Cats and the players that will take court. This week, we will shift our focus to the competition in the [...]
UK can’t stop Dixon or get the ball to playmakers, fall 31-24
It’s rare that I can watch a game and boil down a win or a loss to just two contributing factors. Last night’s 31-24 defeat at the hands of the Mississippi State Bulldogs was one of those times. Kentucky could do nothing to stop the run and they couldn’t get the ball to Derrick Locke [...]
Cats fall to Miss St. 31-24
The Cats used true freshman Morgan Newton as the main quarterback and he played like, well, a true freshman. Newton threw a pivotal pick in the red zone and also took a sack to end the game while T.C. Drake was wide open in the middle of the field. Oh, and the Cats rush defense was apparently [...]
Kentucky Will Not Wear Black Uniforms
According to Rich Brooks’ latest tweet, Kentucky is not planning on wearing black uniforms in Saturday’s pivotal matchup against Mississippi State. Brooks insisted that they do not even have black uniforms and that they will wear their traditional blues. Saturday is still a blackout, so UK is asking that all fans wear black. Rich Brooks [...]
Media picks UK to win SEC, Patterson to win POY
One year after collapsing down the stretch and finishing on the outside looking in on the NCAA Tournament, the SEC media has nearly unanimously picked Kentucky to win the conference and picked the Wildcats leader, Patrick Patterson, to win top honors as the player of the year. Needless to say, things have changed a bit [...]
SEC Saturday Round-Up – Week 2
Kentucky had Saturday off, so instead of focusing my energy on the ‘Cats game, I’ve been watching Kentucky’s SEC opponents trying to evaluate exactly where UK stands with respect to each of them. I know we’ve only gotten to see UK at full speed for about 3 quarters against an overmatched MAC squad, but I [...]
Bulldogs punch NCAA ticket, which other SEC teams will too?
MISSISSIPPI STATE 64 TENNESSEE 61 Is it just me, or was it amateur hour in Tampa during the last few minutes of the SEC Tournament final? Someone forgot where the “start” button was on the clock, and neither team seemed to want the ball during the last 10 seconds. There seemed to be 29 consecutive [...]
2009 SEC Tournament: Semifinals Recap, Final Preview
Here’s a recap of the action of the last two games in the history of Raycom Sports: MISSISSIPPI STATE 67 LSU 57 This was not a very fun game to watch. LSU appeared to be sleepwalking, and neither team could string together any made shots. The teams combined to shoot 42-131 (32.1%). LSU’s two stars, [...]
SEC Tournament: Friday Wrapup, Saturday Outlook
Here’s what went down on Friday in the SEC Tournament: LSU 67 KENTUCKY 58-Here’s my recap of UK’s ouster from the SEC Tournament MISSISSIPPI STATE 82 SOUTH CAROLINA 68 Hey, I can’t be expected to be perfect. I finally got one of these games wrong, and it spells big time trouble for the South Carolina [...]
SEC Tournament: Thursday Wrap-up, Friday Outlook
It’s a rare day in March when I pick four games and get them all right. I could used to this! Dere’s a quick recap of the SEC Tournament action on Thursday: UK 71 OLE MISS 58-Here’s Wink’s wrap-up. I was off on the deficit when I said UK 68-63, but at least I got [...]
Thursday SEC Tourney Viewer’s Guide
It’s been fun watching small conference teams like Morehead State and Cleveland State play their way to NCAA bids for the first time since the 1980’s. It’s also been fun watching the Big East bubble teams (Georgetown and Cincinnati) play like they want no part of the Tournament. Even so, tomorrow is when the real [...]
2009 SEC Tournament Preview: What’s it going to take to survive Selection Sunday?
Throughout the course of this college basketball, the SEC has been pretty universally panned as a weak conference. Some have called into question the validity of that evaluation, but there’s no disputing that the SEC has had better years. The SEC has but one team in the RPI top 35 (#23 Tennessee) and only three [...]
The Pinkie Breaks Down the SEC Race
A big win by the ‘Cats yesterday makes thinking about the rest of season a lot more fun. Things went basically according to script yesterday (with one exception) as all SEC teams were in action. Here’s what went down: UK 77 Tennessee 58 Florida 82 Vanderbilt 68-Florida raced out to an early 19-4 lead, and [...]
The Pinkie Breaks Down the SEC Race
Another full set of SEC games, another set of teams suffers serious blows to their NCAA chances. Let’s jump straight to the action from Tuesday and Wednesday: Vanderbilt 77 UK 63-Still trying to forget this. LSU 72 Arkansas 69-It seems like UK was the only team that Arkansas has not had a lead on in [...]
Post UK-Mississippi State Thoughts
I’m glad I got Wink to cover me last night for the UK wrap-up, because I’m not sure if I would have been able to stomach writing a recap of that game immediately afterward. There was not much positive to take from that loss, other than the fact that UK has plenty of room for [...]
Kentucky Drops Third Strait
Wow…does the Tennessee game not seem like an eternity ago? The Cats lost their third strait tonight, after starting league play off at 5-0, to the Mississippi State Bulldogs, 66-57. The loss marks the first time ever that MSU has defeated UK three strait times. Offensively the Cats looked absolutely abysmal for 40 minutes. They shot 36-percent from [...]
The Pinkie Previews Mississippi State at Kentucky: Wink’s Breakdown
Date: Tuesday, February 3rd Time: 7:00 p.m. EST Site: Rupp Arena (23,500) in Lexington, KY Series History: UK leads 84-19 (43-4 in Lexington, 30-12 @Starkville, 11-3 neutral) Last Meeting: Mississippi State 69, Kentucky 64 (1/15/08 in Starkville) National Rankings: None On Tuesday the Cats look to end two two-game skids, as they host the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Rupp Arena. They are [...]
