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Patrick Patterson named AP First Team All American
Today the Associated Press unveiled its pre-season All American team. The 5 first teamers are big names from big schools, and Patrick Patterson is one. Here’s what the team looks like: Luke Harangody – Notre Dame Cole Aldrich – Kansas Sherron Collins – Kansas Patrick Patterson – Kentucky Kyle Singler – Duke Also, the pre-season [...]
NBA executive talks to Jeff Goodman about John Wall, Daniel Orton
This is from Jeff Goodman’s blog on Foxports.com. Some really interesting stuff about a couple of UK’s heralded freshmen: I just found out the Preseason AP Poll will be released on Thursday. Kansas will be the clear-cut No. 1 team in the land, but it’ll be interesting to see who gets the nod at No. [...]
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 [...]
Notes from UK’s Saturday Morning and Afternoon Practices
All of the hype surrounded Friday night’s Big Blue Madness festivities. The lights, the introductions, the glitz, the all-star game caliber scrimmage and of course John Calipari’s State of the Bluegrass address. However, if you wanted to get a first look at what this Kentucky team is really going to be like, than Saturday’s morning [...]
Electric Big Blue Madness introduces Commonwealth to its team
Big Blue Madness is an event I’ve always wanted to attend, but it’s never quite worked out…I think I picked a good one for my first time. For the 18,000 or so in attendance, what a spectacle. Coach John Calipari and UK Athletics recognized a couple opportunities in the way they put together the [...]
Patrick Patterson, face of UK
And I don’t think I could pick a better guy to represent Kentucky. This article has been making the rounds today, but it’s another (and maybe the best) reason to feel warm and fuzzy on the day of Big Blue Madness. It’s rare to see an athlete so young grasp so clearly the magnitude of [...]
Big Blue Madness 5 days away: Top 10 reasons why this will be a long week
Don’t get me wrong, I love UK football. Even though this season hasn’t gone exactly as planned, I have still enjoyed watching and supporting Rich Brooks and the ‘Cats, and I will continue to do so. However, it’s just not UK basketball. Nothing approaches UK basketball. For my money, the debut of UK basketball on [...]
Cementing a legacy: Patrick Patterson’s place in UK lore
Cast your minds back to two years ago last May. Billy Gillispie was but a month into his ill-fated tenure as Kentucky coach. UK had lost a coach in Tubby Smith and a big man in Randolph Morris. Gillispie was scrambling to put together a roster that could compete on the customary Big Blue level. [...]
The Pinkie’s first basketball offseason, the busiest in Bluegrass history
When we started Strait Pinkie almost 10 months ago, we had a list of about 10 different teams we had intentions of covering. However, with UK and UofL football in full swing and basketball just around the corner, we focused the bulk of our energies on the Cards and Cats. It served us well. As [...]
Patrick Patterson and John Wall for POY, who’s the more likely candidate?
If I had told you 5 months ago that UK would have two viable candidates, a guard and a big man, in the conversations about National Player of the Year, I’m betting you would have thought Awesome, Patrick Patterson and Jodie Meeks both came back! As we all know, Jodie Meeks did not come back, [...]
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 [...]
Dwight Perry, Matt Scherbenske react to being cut
Dwight Perry and Matt Scherbenske both have Twitter accounts and yesterday each used theirs to give their reactions to John Calipari’s decision to cut three of the four walkons left on the UK roster. Here’s what they had to say: Dwight Perry Thanks to the whole big blue nation for the support over the past [...]
Options, options, options: A look at some potential lineups for 2009-2010
I know we’re a good three months away from the official debut of the 2009-2010 Kentucky Wildcats at Big Blue Madness, but I think I speak for a lot of UK fans when I say that I can’t stop thinking about basketball. Football is great and I love UK football and I’m looking forward to [...]
Never a quiet week in UK basketball
Outside of the beginning of the July recruiting period, I figured this past week wouldn’t be the worst to go MIA because of a trip down to South Florida for work. Well, it turned out that there wasn’t any earth shattering Kentucky news, but we did get a pretty steady stream of stuff going on [...]
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 [...]
WKYT on UK summer pickup games
Accounts of battles between John Wall and Eric Bledsoe are already becoming the stuff of legend. Seeing the two potentially play together has to be a terrorizing prospect for opponents. The two are part of UK’s top ranked recruiting class that is now in Lexington getting accustomed to eachother and the rest of their new [...]
Darius Miller – The Forgotten One
Following UK basketball this offseason has become nearly a full time job. First, we had the Gillispie-Calipari transition. Then we watched as John Calipari pieced together what may turn out to be the best recruiting class in Kentucky history. Before we could even catch our collective breath, news of major allegations against Memphis basketball broke. [...]
It’s been real Jodie Meeks
I don’t think that now is the time to try to break down and criticize Jodie Meeks decision to forgo his senior year at UK and stay in the NBA Draft. We have hashed and rehashed the pros and cons for staying and leaving by this point and the fact that he felt he had [...]
More signs point to Jodie Meeks return
We’re down to about 42 and a half hours before Monday’s 5 pm deadline to withdraw from the NBA Draft, and the prevailing thought seems to be that Kentucky will get its leading scorer from last season, Jodie Meeks, back for his senior year. A Facebook hoax fooled a couple people into thinking it would [...]
Waiting on Jodie Meeks
As Carl spelled out so well in covering for me while I was traveling in the home state of Eric Bledsoe and DeMarcus Cousins, we now know who will NOT have a scholarship next year. All that’s left to determine now is whether Jodie Meeks will be lucky number 13 on the roster or whether [...]
