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Anyone who saw Kentucky's post-Georgia news conferences would have been excused for thinking the Wildcats were, for lack of a better word, done. John Calipari said he'd done a "crap job" with this team. An angry Archie Goodwin claimed UK could bea...

Last season, in many ways, Louisville and Kentucky held the college hoops consciousness hostage. For denizens of the Bluegrass State in areas both urban and rural, this was nothing new; UK and UL wage an intense year-long rivalry with immense cult...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Quick thoughts from Notre Dame's 64-50 victory over No. 8 Kentucky, the program's fourth straight win over a top-10 team: Overview: For the first five minutes, as UK's highly touted young players carved up Notre Dame's less tout...

In preview season, it is never exactly easy to predict what Kentucky is going to be. The reasons for this are obvious: Ever since he arrived at UK, John Calipari has suffered dramatic, by-design annual personnel turnover. So Calipari, in his typicall...

When Chicago native Jabari Parker, the top player in the class of 2013 and already a Sports Illustrated cover boy, announced his list of five remaining potential collegiate destinations, Kentucky wasn't on that list. That was surprising to me, if onl...

With all the big news of the week -- first Notre Dame's move to the ACC, then Jim Calhoun's retirement at Connecticut, and even the dismissal of Butler guard Crishawn Hopkins -- a fun story out of Lexington, Ky., managed to slip under the blog's rada...

Despite the vague moniker, secondary violations are essentially what they say they are: Minor breaches of rules the NCAA enforces but hardly emphasizes in its never-ending task of maintaining amateurism in college athletics. When they happen, the typ...

It always seemed pretty unlikely that Kentucky forward (and top-ranked incoming player in the class of 2012) Nerlens Noel wouldn't be eligible to play in his upcoming freshman season at UK. On Wednesday, Noel made it official, telling CBS's Jeff Good...

The connection forged between Kentucky coach John Calipari and Drake, the superstar rapper and/or R&B artist (depending on whether or not you care for Drake's rhymes), is not a new one. Drake played at the first Big Blue Madness event hosted afte...

Cody Zeller seems like a pretty level-headed guy. He could have been a lottery pick this season, but he was having fun being in college -- how awesome would college be if you're Cody Zeller? -- so he decided to stay. It wouldn't be a total shock if h...

This has long since made the rounds on Twitter by now, including via our friends at ESPN Home Court and SportsCenter, and you can read more about it at Larry Brown Sports. But come on. Really? You thought I wasn't going to post about this? You though...

Naturally, Kentucky coach John Calipari heard the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics' complaints, immediately realized the error of his ways and got down to scheduling every big-time nonconference game on UK's schedule as a campus-bound home and ...

Kentucky coach John Calipari didn't want to continue UK's longstanding rivalry with Indiana as a home-and-home series. Indiana coach Tom Crean didn't want to play on a neutral floor. Turns out, fans of both teams, and fans of college basketball in ge...

The Indiana-Kentucky rivalry is dead. That's sad. Fans of both programs don't agree on much, including the various reasons given as to why the series had to end, but in general this would seem to be one of the few things on which IU and UK fans co...

Indiana has its rivalry with Purdue. Kentucky has its mutual disdain for Louisville. But the hatred between the IU and UK fan bases, particularly along the Indiana-Kentucky border, is very real, and a small slice of what makes college basketball grea...

NEW ORLEANS -- How did the Kentucky Wildcats just win the 2012 national title? "We were the best team this season," coach John Calipari said. "They were playing with pros," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "That didn't hurt, either." Simple enou...