Before I start, I am once again ecstatic because of the recruiting of Rich Brooks and Joker Phillips. Morgan Newton committed to UK this morning, and hopefully you heard it first from me in my column on Sam Simpson. It’s a great day to be a Wildcat fan. This will be my last 2004 game. [...]
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WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. GEORGIA (2004)
Posted: 21st August 2008 by Kenny Colston in Chuck Hayes, Erik Daniels, Georgia, Gerald Fitch, Tubby Smith, UK basketball, WGCGA0
WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. ARKANSAS (1995)
Posted: 17th August 2008 by Kenny Colston in Antoine Walker, Arkansas, Tony Delk, UK basketball, Walter McCarty, WGCGAI could do a column on either of the two games UK had against Arkansas in 1995, but I don’t have the loss in Fayetteville on Super Bowl Sunday where Scotty Thurman pushed off to get open for the game winner. That was a great game despite the outcome, but this one was even better. [...]
WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. FLORIDA (2004)
Posted: 14th August 2008 by Kenny Colston in Chuck Hayes, Erik Daniels, Florida Gators, Gerald Fitch, Kelenna Azibuke, Tubby Smith, UK basketball, WGCGAI love this game, and I also hate it. I did the Michigan State game from this season a few weeks ago, so let me try to fill in some gaps. The 2004 Wildcats were an experienced group of guys who meshed well, but they didn’t have a great bench. This translated into quick starts [...]
WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. ARKANSAS (1994)
Posted: 11th August 2008 by Kenny Colston in Arkansas, Rick Pitino, Tony Delk, Travis Ford, UK basketball, WGCGAAfter the emotional win over Florida, all Kentucky needed to do in order to win the SEC East and avoid Arkansas until the SEC Tournament Finals was win at South Carolina. Unfortunately, the Cats came out flat, and the Gamecocks burned UK with a backdoor cut in the final seconds to pull off the surprise [...]
WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. TENNESSEE (2001)
Posted: 28th July 2008 by Kenny Colston in Gerald Fitch, Keith Bogans, Saul Smith, tayshaun prince, Tennessee, Tubby Smith, UK basketball, WGCGAHow much do I love this game? I thought Tubby Smith did such a good job coaching in this one that it bought him almost six extra years of me having his back. In 2001, Kentucky was once again the victim of the Larry Ivy schedule, as it was as brutal as ever in the [...]
WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. MICHIGAN STATE (2004)
Posted: 17th July 2008 by Kenny Colston in Chuck Hayes, Erik Daniels, Gerald Fitch, Tubby Smith, WGCGAIf you want to leave a request for a game, please do so on the comment page. Just make sure that the game is from 1992 on, and the good guys win. This is another game that I’ve watched so many times that my tape is almost worn out. This, of course, is the infamous [...]
WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. UMASS!!! (1998)
Posted: 15th July 2008 by Kenny Colston in Jamal Mashburn, John Pelphrey, Rick Pitino, WGCGAMy MS Word might explode on this one because I insist on using the term “UMASS!!!” every time when referring to the Massachusetts Minutemen. This was Kentucky’s opponent on that night, and it was the last game the Unforgettables ever won. Kentucky had played UMASS!!! earlier in the season in Lexington, and they won by [...]
WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. IOWA STATE (1992)
Posted: 12th July 2008 by Kenny Colston in Jamal Mashburn, John Pelphrey, Rick Pitino, WGCGANow that we’re done with 1998, I’ve started taking requests on Cats’ Pause, and once I finish with those three requests, I’ll take requests from both here and there for this series. The only conditions of the requests are that the game has to be from 1992 at the earliest, and it has to be [...]
WORLD’S GREATEST CLASSIC GAME ANALYSIS: UK VS. STANFORD (1998)
Posted: 9th July 2008 by Kenny Colston in Cameron Mills, Jeff Sheppard, Nazr Mohammed, Scott Padgett, Tubby Smith, WGCGAUnlike Duke, Stanford presented an extremely difficult matchup with the Comeback Cats, and this was mainly because of their size. Peter Sauer played small forward and completely dwarfed Allen Edwards. Mark Madsen, the original winner of “So You Think You Can Dance,” was shorter than Scott Padgett, but weighed more and played a more natural [...]
World's Greatest Classic Game Analysis: UK vs. Alabama (1998)
Posted: 25th June 2008 by Kenny Colston in Nazr Mohammed, Scott Padgett, Tubby Smith, WGCGAI know nobody remembers this one, because I hardly remember it. That’s why I have the tapes. If memory serves me correctly, this was the last time Kentucky played an SEC home game at Freedom Hall in Louisville. This game also immediately followed the Arkansas game I sent in yesterday, so there isn’t much backstory. [...]