Category: UK Basketball

Photo courtesy of UK Athletics, Chet White Saint. Peter’s. Peacocks.  The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team, the gold standard of college basketball, lost to the freaking Peacocks.  It sucked.  There’s no other way to...

Rejections.  Stuffs.  Facials.  Swats.  Denials.  Whatever you want to call them, there is no understating the impact a huge blocked shot can have on the momentum of a basketball game.  In a sport that features some of the best...

Now that the NCAA Tournament is over, I am having bracket withdrawal.  Even without Kentucky in the 2021 field, I still got an emotional high from filling out a bracket, following the rankings in my office pool, and betting on...

John Calipari’s 2021 recruiting class may end up being the worst ranked class of his tenure at Kentucky.  From 2009-2020, Kentucky had the honor of having the #1 or #2 ranked class every single year.  However, as it currently...

Never before has there been so much at stake in the SEC Tournament as there will be for this year’s Kentucky Wildcats.  What started as a team with a pre-season top 10 ranking and potential Final Four upside, has now finished as...

Kentucky’s lowest and highest moments of this wild college basketball season may have come against the same opponent.  After squandering a 10-point lead with 12 minutes to go a few weeks ago at home against Tennessee, all hope...

This Kentucky basketball team can’t even make new uniforms exciting.  In a decision that only Mitch Barnhardt could love, the Cats took the floor at Rupp Arena on an ugly, dull Saturday night wearing ugly, dull silver uniforms. ...

You don’t have to be a Basketball Benny to know bad basketball when you see it.  It has become abundantly clear to anyone who was watched this year’s Kentucky basketball team, that they just aren’t very good.  They can’t shoot. ...

In 1994, the greatest sports story and greatest sequel ever were combined into one incredibly epic film.  I’m of course referring to Disney’s Mighty Ducks 2.  If you have never seen it, I encourage you to stop reading this...

It has become an annual tradition in Lexington, KY.  Every March, after the NCAA Tournament bracket is revealed, someone will ask UK Coach John Calipari what he thinks of Kentucky’s draw.  He then proceeds to discuss all the...

 “Hey, Coach, is Richie gonna play tonight?”  For years this was the number one question on every single Kentucky basketball call-in show in the late 80s.  For those of you too young to remember, “Richie” is former Kentucky...