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Good morning, BBN! The Kentucky Wildcats will kick off the SEC Tournament in Nashville on Wednesday afternoon as Mark Pope and his squad look to pull off the impossible and make a run to the weekend for the first time since 2019. What are the chances of the Cats doing that? Slim to none, it […]
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The first spring football under Will Stein is here, and just before it starts on Tuesday, two more pieces have been added to the staff. Eli Wicklund and Adam Kleffner would be joining the staff as analysts. Wicklund, who is originally from Nicholasville, comes from D-III program Christopher Newport University, with prior stints at Bucknell, […]
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Well, we made it. It has not always been pretty or fun, but Kentucky Basketball is now in the postseason and looking to make an impact. After the Florida loss, Mark Pope said, “We are heading down to Nashville to win… We can’t wait to get to it.“ The Cats are getting to it a […]
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Greetings, BBN! The SEC regular season is complete. Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, and Vanderbilt clinched the double-byes, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Georgia, and Missouri snagged the singles, and everybody else will be battling on Wednesday. Conference expansion has made the SEC Tournament bigger than ever before, and the first of 15 games tips off Wednesday at 12:30 […]
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It continues to look like the return of Kam Williams is imminent for the Kentucky Wildcats. With SEC Tournament play set to begin Wednesday, head coach Mark Pope has a new update on his sophomore forward. Williams, who returned to practice last Thursday, continues to practice without any setbacks. “Kam actually practiced some limited today, […]
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Well, here we are: the end of the regular season. It’s conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament from here on out, and at the end of the 31-game march, there’s a trio of 29-2 teams at the top. Duke, Arizona, and Michigan all ran through their conferences with relative ease. The Blue Devils lost to […]
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Recruitment is heating up, as many recruits start to schedule official visits this Spring, some are already committing. That is what Kentucky Football saw over the weekend, as they lost 4-star TE Seneca Driver to Oklahoma, and most recently, Bryan Station 4-star defensive back Jordan Haskins, who has committed to Louisville, giving the Cardinals another […]
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Kentucky Basketball freshman forward Braydon Hawthorne has confirmed that he plans to return to Lexington next season after spending the current year developing as a redshirt. During an interview with Ben Roberts of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Hawthorne was asked if he expected to be back with the Wildcats next year. The freshman responded confidently. “Yeah,” […]
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The Kentucky Wildcats are nowhere to be found in the college basketball top-25 polls and are dropping in the analytics. Kentucky is no longer receiving votes in the men’s AP Poll or the Coaches Poll. The women’s basketball team is up to No. 16 in the latest AP Poll. BartTorivk has Kentucky at No. 33 […]
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Kentucky Basketball’s coaching staff continues to explore new recruiting avenues, and one potential addition to the roster in the future is G League guard Dink Pate. According to Jacob Polacheck of KSR, Pate is expected to have a Zoom meeting with the Kentucky staff within the next week. The meeting comes after head coach Mark […]
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Belief is a powerful thing in sports. Listen to Miami head coach Travis Steele talk about it with his Miami RedHawks being 31-0. If you have belief, you can do anything. That’s why UK Sports Network color analyst Jack “Goose” Givens’s comments about Kentucky during Saturday’s game against Florida are glaringly concerning. That’s not something […]
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Look, Florida was the better team yesterday, and until right up until the end, it really wasn’t that close. The Gators came into a rocking Rupp Arena and broke Kentucky’s will in the first half. To the Cats’ credit, they did fight back and get back within 5. They should have had a possession there […]
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Kentucky football came up short in its pursuit of one of the top prospects in the state. 4-star tight end Seneca Driver, the No. 1-ranked player in Kentucky for the class of 2027, announced his commitment to Oklahoma on Saturday night while on a visit to Norman. The 6-foot-6, 240-pound tight end from Boyle County […]
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It has now been made official that Mitch Barnhart is set to retire as the University of Kentucky Athletics Director at the end of June, and while he’s leaving his spot as AD, it seems he will still have a position at UK moving forward. In today’s world of college athletics, nothing moves slowly, which […]
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In a game Kentucky really needed to win yesterday, the Wildcats came out flat and never led against the Florida Gators on Senior Day at Rupp Arena. A late surge wasn’t enough for Kentucky, as they fell 84-77 in a game that wasn’t really as close as the final score indicates. Kentucky wraps up the […]
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Mitch Barnhart spent part of Friday’s press conference explaining and defending the role he will take after stepping down as Kentucky’s athletic director later this year. After 24 years leading UK Athletics, Barnhart will retire as athletic director on June 30 and transition into a new position as the university’s first Executive in Residence for […]
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The regular season has officially come to a close in the SEC, which means it’s time to tip off the 2026 SEC Tournament in Nashville, Tennessee. This year’s tournament begins on Wednesday, March 11, with four opening-round games that the Kentucky Wildcats will be a part of. Kentucky’s first game will come on Wednesday at […]
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The SEC Tournament is set, and your Kentucky Wildcats will be playing on Wednesday vs. the LSU Tigers in the 9 vs. 16 game. Tip-off is set for 12:30 PM ET on the SEC Network. Kentucky won the lone regular-season matchup between these two thanks to Malachi Moreno’s miraculous shot as time expired. If the […]
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It looks like the Kentucky Basketball team is adding another support staff position. The University of Kentucky has a job posting for a position titled “Associate Director, Player Development.” Here’s more from UK about what the job entails. The Player Development position plays a central role in shaping the Kentucky Men’s basketball program through the […]
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Kentucky Basketball’s regular season ended Saturday with another difficult result, falling to Florida with a potential double bye in the SEC Tournament on the line. Instead, the Wildcats will now open the tournament on Wednesday, marking the first time in program history that Kentucky will play on the opening day of the SEC Tournament. The […]
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The Kentucky Wildcats got dominated in Rupp Arena this afternoon, as Mark Pope and the Cats have now locked Wendesay game in Nashville next week. If that isn’t embarrassing enough for this program, we now have Dick Vitale fighting against anyone thinking of moral victories. On the broadcast in the second half, the conversation started […]
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Before the Kentucky Wildcats welcomed the No. 5 Florida Gators to Rupp Arena, we got a little bit of news on Kam Williams heading into next week’s SEC Tournament. Williams did return to practice on Thursday, and Mark Pope gave a quick update on how that return went on the pregame radio segment: “He was […]
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The Kentucky Wildcats got destroyed on Senior Day inside Rupp Arena as the Florida Gators coasted past the Cats. The final score of 84-77 made the game look far more competitive than it really was, as the Gators dominated the first half and cruised to the finish line before Kentucky made a late push in […]
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Florida used runs of 11-0 and 13-0 in the first half to stay far enough ahead and hold off Kentucky Basketball 84-77 Saturday at Rupp Arena. With the loss, Kentucky falls to 19-12 overall and 10-8 in the SEC, and they will now be heading into a Wednesday start at the SEC Tournament in Nashville. […]
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The Kentucky Wildcats lost on their home court to the Florida Gators on Saturday afternoon by a score of 84-77. The Cats got off to one of their habitual slow starts, falling behind 11-0, but they actually fought back early. The intensity didn’t last long as they just as quickly fell apart. The Gators took […]
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