UK Wildcat Country

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I have lots of thoughts. Let’s start with the SEC Tournament, even though it’s old news. The Mississippi State game showcased a tremendous will to win from this bunch. Eric Bledsoe had the greatest intentional free throw miss I’ve ever seen to set up the tying score. [...]

Before I begin, let’s start with the disclaimer that I was born in 1986 and my basketball memory starts in 1992. That eliminates the 101-100 shootout win over Alabama in 1979 and Kenny Walker’s buzzer beater against Auburn in 1984. I am aware of these games’ existence, but I have never seen them, so they [...]

Did Kentucky learn anything from the Tennessee game? The performance against Georgia was a good start, but it takes more than one game to determine if any learning has been done. After Sunday, we will know if Kentucky has finally understood that they can play championship-caliber defense if they feel like it. It was the [...]

When the schedule was released in August, two weeks of play got special attention. One was the gauntlet in December that went North Carolina –> Connecticut –> Indiana. The other was presumed to be the roughest patch of the SEC schedule: Tennessee –> Mississippi State –> Vanderbilt. Upon the release of the schedule, I predicted [...]

A message to Mississippi State fans: Don’t poke the bear with a stick. He’ll go off for 19 points and 10 rebounds against the best interior defender in the country. I don’t blame State for pulling off all the stops. Beating Kentucky probably would have locked them into the tournament, barring a monumental collapse. When [...]

Another day, another SEC mercy kill for the Kentucky Wildcats. Only twice this year has Kentucky put together a throat slash effort in conference play. One of them was Arkansas, and my message to the Arkansas fans is “you’re welcome.” The other one was yesterday. Don’t give me any crap about how LSU outscored Kentucky [...]

DeMarcus Cousins won SEC player of the week this past week for putting up 18-12 against Hartford and 18-18 against Louisville. I’m okay with that. The 18-18 game was one of the best performances by a Kentucky player against Louisville since the series resumed in 1983. I’m okay with any accolades DeMarcus gets for his [...]

I haven’t done one of these in a while. Let’s see if I remember how. The views I’m about to express are not necessarily those of anybody else but me, but they ought to be, and as a matter of fact, they probably are. Bob Knight made a comment to the media this morning or [...]

That team would be your 2009-10 Kentucky Wildcats. I haven’t been able to write since the Connecticut game, so I have things to say. When a team depends as much on freshmen as this Kentucky team does, you usually don’t see that team win the kinds of games like Kentucky did Saturday at Indiana or [...]

1996. Not only was it a pretty good year, but that now equals Kentucky’s all-time wins total after the thrilling and emotionally exhausting win over the North Carolina Tar Heels. As a fan, you might think I’m joking when I say this, but it’s completely true: I have never been more nervous during a ballgame [...]