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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 [...]
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 [...]
Notes from Calipari’s first practice at UK
Eric Lindsey of UK Athletics Cat Scratches blog had the following observations after watching John Calipari’s first practice with his new team: Not even 36 hours after John Calipari was hired to become the 22nd head coach in program history, Calipari held his first practice Thursday night at the Joe Craft Center. Cat Scratches had [...]
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 [...]
Post UK-Creighton Thoughts: Wait, UK is still playing games?
You had to wonder what the UK basketball players were thinking about among uncertainty and swirling rumors about the status of their coach and the future of the program. You had to wonder what it felt like to be playing a postseason game, but to be relegated to page 2 of the Courier-Journal sports section [...]
UK conjures some Memorial Magic of its own, beats UNLV 70-60
UK made it a little bit more difficult than it probably needed to be, but the ‘Cats held off the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels 70-60 after building a 20 point second half lead. Things got tense for a while, as UK struggled to get into their offense against the UNLV press and half court double teams, [...]
Gillispie Speaks on Georgia Loss
Kentucky Head Coach Billy Gillispie On Kentucky’s mass substitutions… “We weren’t getting much production. It’s entirely my fault. I’m having a hard time finding five guys that play hard, smart and together the whole time. We are trying a lot of different things but none of them seem to be working right now. Georgia played [...]
Coach Gillispie Speaks on A.J. Stewart
Head Coach Billy Gillispie Quotes On A.J. Stewart’s status… “(A.J.) Stewart had a tough time the other night, like all of us have had before. He said some things he didn’t mean to say, and since that time he’s had a great deal of remorse. He’s part of our family. Those things happen from time [...]
UK-Arkansas grades
As Wink predicted, I couldn’t resist pontificating just a little bit about UK, so here I am to give couple quick thoughts about the ‘Cats 79-63 road win over the Arkansas Razorbacks, as well as my grades for the game. It’s become a common theme this season, but yesterday was all about Jodie Meeks. 45 [...]
Post UK-Arkansas Thoughts
Despite our best “JC…JC…Put in Jared Carter” chant, Billy Gillispie refused to put in Carter with a sixteen point lead and under two minutes remaining. Kentucky, or should I say Jodie Meeks, controlled the game from the start as the Cats reeled off a 79-63 win over the Razorbacks at Bud Walton Arena. It is [...]
