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Kentucky Wildcat Basketball: All I want for Christmas is ...
As Santa readies his reindeer and fills his sleigh with goodies for all the good boys and girls who find themselves on the North Pole Nice List, it's time to reveal what I requested from the bearded one this year. Keeping in line with my extremely unselfish nature (that's my wife laughing...
Kentucky Wildcat Basketball: Critiquing the 'Cats
With the Wildcats taking final exams this week, and with no games taking place, I thought it was time to take a look at how the youthful 'Cats have performed so far this season, and what each player needs to improve on. Considering this Kentucky squad is saddled with great expectations,...
Kentucky Basketball Recruiting: 2012 PF Jarnell Stokes Plans to Enroll Early, Start College Mid-Year
As has been speculated for some time, 2012 power forward Jarnell Stokes plans to enroll early, starting college after he graduates from high school this winter. The news was confirmed by Stokes' father in an interview with Cats Illustrated ($ - premium link). Stokes is looking to decide on a...
Kentucky Wildcat Basketball: Seven Day Symmetry and Other Wonderments
Feeling the Jubilation, Feeling the Pain Being a sports fan, regardless of which college or pro team one roots for, is by definition (either) an exercise in elation, or a killjoy of profound magnitude. For Kentucky basketball fans those emotional rivals, elation and depression, are magnified...
Passing Box Score: Kentucky vs. North Carolina
After reading A Sea of Blue contributor Anything But Gatorade's thought-provoking take on Assist to Turnover ratio and its (relative) usefulness, I was intrigued to dive in further. To that end, I rewatched Kentucky's thrilling victory over North Carolina and charted all the passes on Kentucky's...
Staring Down The Musket At...The Miami Hurricanes
We're going to try to continue our Staring Down The Musket series through basketball season, but please pardon us if the number of games and quicker turnaround (and the fact that some opponents...like Marshall...don't even have a blog to respond to our question) cause us to skip a game here or...
Kentucky Wildcat Football: Busting Streaks and Sending Tennessee Home (Rocky) Topless
"Let me do this first: I've got to tell you, I've been doing this a long time. Coaching is coaching, whether it's baseball, basketball, fast break, whatever it is, volleyball. For our football team to do what they did today, for Matt Roark to do what he did today, for Joker (Phillips) and his...
Kentucky Basketball Recruiting: 2013 Big Board (Version 2)
Yes. I know. You're thinking it. "JC, it's ridiculously early! These kids are just juniors! Can't we wait on discussing them until they're actually, you know, ready to commit?!" To rebut, I point you to ESPNU's Super 60, which shows that 12 of the top 60 juniors in the country having already...
Grantland: Is Bill Self a Second-Tier Active Coach?
Kentucky Sports Radio founder Matt Jones wrote an article for Grantland discussing Kentucky's National Title hopes this week in a series looking at the top five contenders. Most of the article is very insightful. But one point caught my eye in a big way: "[Calipari] knows that he is as good as or...
Kentucky Wildcats Basketball: Recruiting Roundup
It has been a little more than a week since I dropped the last 2012 Recruiting Big Board update, and already there's been action without actual action. That is the nature of the recruiting beast. Like Twitter, the game of Monopoly, or ninja movements, it's all just shadow and speculation until it's...
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