To win the Battle of the Blue Bloods, UK must correct what went wrong in the War of the Oranges
The upcoming Battle of the Blue Bloods turned a paler shade of blue this week. Kansas fell to West Virginia. And then, immediately following on ESPN, Kentucky lost to Tennessee. That may have a chilling effect on the national importance of Saturday’s game between...
UK’s win against Vandy once again proves Isaiah Briscoe is the smartest kid on the court
Vanderbilt basketball games always take on a sort of other-worldly aura for Kentucky. Can it really be that simply putting the teams’ benches at the endlines rather than on the sides of the court completely disorients the visitors? To say nothing of the howling...
Beyond Louisville: A closer look at the Cats as Coach Cal irons out the wrinkles during conference play
It may be the New Year for most of the world, but it’s the Mid-Year for the college basketball world. So where is Kentucky as it heads into the conference part of its season? John Calipari had said, before the Louisville game, that he’d...
Big Four Bridge bleeds red by a narrow margin
By a narrow margin of $171, University of Louisville Cardinal fans won Waterfront Park’s fundraising competition to light the Big Four Bridge in red leading up to tonight’s big game with the University of Kentucky Wildcats. On Tuesday evening, the results were posted on Waterfront...
Kentucky comes into the Yum! Center against Louisville. But which team will show up?
Kentucky’s basketball fortunes have bobbed up and down this past month as if on the end of a bungee cord. The Wildcats came into the season ranked by most as the No. 1 team in the country, based on the assessment that Kentucky had another...
Taking away Kentucky’s three-point game is key to a Cards victory
Don’t expect Kentucky to beat Louisville 103-100. That’s what Kentucky beat North Carolina by on Saturday in Las Vegas, with sensational Kentucky freshman Malik Monk pouring in 47 points — including a game-winning three-pointer. But don’t think for a minute that Kentucky (10-1) will...
Cowgill: Cards get decisive win over SIU; Cats answer questions in victory over Valparaiso
By Fred Cowgill | WLKY News No. 11 University of Louisville Basketball beat Southern Illinois Wednesday 74-51, which was expected. What was somewhat unexpected and a pleasant surprise was the Louisville win was fueled by three starters, Jaylen Johnson (9 points, 10 rebounds), Deng Adel...
WLKY: Kentucky remains No. 1 in AP college basketball poll; UofL, IU fall after losses
Kentucky and Villanova remain the top two teams in The Associated Press college basketball poll. Baylor made the week’s biggest jump, from No. 20 to No. 9, after beating Michigan State and Louisville in winning the Battle 4 Atlantis. The Cardinals fell from 10th...
Joe Nocera to speak at Kentucky Author Forum about the ‘indentured servitude’ of NCAA athletes
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera is the guest of the Kentucky Author Forum Monday night at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, where he will discuss his new book that indicts the NCAA as a multibillion industry whose administrators and coaches profit...
In Other News… Wildcat Basketball, a Sen. McConnell song, Wendell Berry honored, and more
Hoosiered: CBS Sports, The Indy Star and ESPN report your university of Kentucky winning Wildcats fell to the Hoosiers of Indiana last Friday night. Final score: Indiana 73, Kentucky 67. Much was made of the Kentucky and Indiana meeting in the second round, so...
University of Kentucky BasketballSeptember 15, 2019
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