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Liveblog: Kentucky-Georgia football
I’m in the Peach State of Georgia for the football game tonight, so no basketball liveblog. But I will be liveblogging Cats-Dogs tonight from Sanford Stadium. Kentucky-Georgia football
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Video: John Calipari before today’s practice
Several clips of UK coach John Calipari talking to the media before today’s practice. There will be four clips in all. Click the continue button to see the other clips. (One more to come, so check back.) Here Calipari talks about his team’s defense against the 3-pointer.  ...
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Video: Calipari talks about video from Thursday game
Here is UK coach John Calipari talking before Friday’s practice about watching the video of Thursday’s win over Sam Houston.
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UK basketball individual stats in Excel (so far)
Put together an Excel file of UK individual basketball stats through the first three games. Here’s the link, using Google docs. Or you can see the jpeg view by clicking to expand the thumbnail chart to the right. Keep clicking on it until it increases to full size. Please feel ...
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John Calipari’s defense at Memphis vs. this year
(H-L photo/Mark Cornelison) John Calipari exclaimed last night that this may be his worst defensive team since 1988. My statistical library doesn’t go back that far, but I do have the stats for his nine years at the helm at Memphis, where the Tigers were generally very good ...
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What is it about Rupp and opponents shooting the 3?
What is it about Rupp Arena? The rims? The background? The atmosphere? Go back over the past eight years and look up the top 10 three-point shooting performances by a Kentucky opponent. Eight of the 10 happened at Rupp, including Sam Houston State’s prolific 18-of-38 super-showing from ...
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Video: Eric Bledsoe after his nice shooting game
Here is UK freshman guard Eric Bledsoe talking about hitting five three-pointers, and how tough it is to play defense in college.
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Video: Highlights from the Calipari post-game presser
Here’s the WKYT sportscast from last night with a greatest hits of Calipari’s post-game clips, starting about 1:00 into the video.
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BBL: What others said about the UK win (plus football)
(H-L photo/Mark Cornelison) Big Blue Links for Friday: Jerry Tipton of the Herald-Leader writes on UK’s 102-92 win over Sam Houston State, leading with, “Kentucky continued to show a record-breaking defense. Alas, for all the wrong reasons.” Mark Story of the H-L ...
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Video: Darius Miller talks defense
Kentucky sophomore Darius Miller talks to the media after last night’s game, giving his thoughts on what needs to be done to improve a defense that has allowed 33 made three-pointers the last two games. And that’s not a misprint.
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SEC links: Nabbing Tobias Harris puts Vols in paradise
SEC links for Friday: John Adams of the Knoxville News-Sentinel writes that Bruce Pearl is happy to welcome Tobias Harris to Tennessee. Wes Rucker of the Chattanooga Times Free Press writes that Harris puts the Vols in real paradise. Chip Towers of the AJC reports on the sudden death ...
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Video: John Wall says UK must get better
johnclay.bloginky.com — Here’s John Wall talking to the media about how the team must improve after Kentucky’s win over Sam Houston State. (more) Video: John Wall says UK must get better
Notes and thoughts on UK’s win over Sam Houston State
(H-L photo/Mark Cornelison) Some quick notables after the Kentucky Colonels, er, Kentucky Wildcats 102-92 win over Sam Houston State. John Calipari is right. This is not a good defensive team. Not yet, anyway. And you though the ball-line defense had trouble against the three-pointer. ...
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Video: DeMarcus Cousins on his 27-point night
Kentucky freshman DeMarcus Cousins talks about his 27-point, 18-rebound night, which the Cats needed all of beat to Sam Houston State 102-92.
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Audio: Calipari says it’s his worst defensive team since ‘88
Here’s John Calipari’s post-game press conference. It’s 14:41 of entertainment, with Cal lamenting his team’s poor defense, the 3-point shooting of Sam Houston State, and several other issues that went into the 102-92 Kentucky victory. The Kentucky coach said ...
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UK football fans rated third “most-polite” in the SEC
SportsIllustrated.com is out with a college football fan survey, which rates Kentucky football fans as the the third most-polite in the SEC. Vanderbilt was No. 1 in that category. Ole Miss was No. 2. Florida was at the bottom.
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Video: Brooks says Cobb will be game-time decision
This is UK coach Rich Brooks after this morning’s practice, where he opens by saying that Randall Cobb did participate in some practice reps, but that the sophomore’s availability Saturday at Georgia will be a game-time decision.
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Video: DeMarcus Cousins on tonight’s matchup
UK freshman DeMarcus Cousins before Wednesday’s practice:
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More on the Tobias Harris mystery
Heralded hoops recruit Tobias Harris signed with some school late last night, but won’t announce until today at 5:30 on ESPNU. Most think Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Syracuse, Maryland and Louisville (outside shot) were the top contenders for Harris, ranked No. 5 by Rivals. But ...
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