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Mitch Barnhart has built one of the longest-running tenures in college athletics. He’s made strong hires, Kenny Brooks, Nick Mingione, and John Calipari among them, and overseen major success across Kentucky’s athletic department. But his legacy isn’t spotless. The Kyra Elzy extension, NIL growing pains, Joker Phillips, and the Billy Gillispie fiasco all left marks. […]
The return of Jayden Quaintance is inching closer as Kentucky basketball awaits the debut of its star transfer from Arizona State. On Thursday, head coach Mark Pope revealed that Quaintance is now taking part in 5-on-0 work during practice. ”He’s unbelievable,“ Pope said of Quaintance. He’s been increasingly ahead of schedule, and he’s now jumping […]
Ohio State women’s basketball returned five players from its 2024-25 season roster. The player from that group with the longest tenure in the Buckeyes’ program is guard Kennedy Cambridge. After sitting the 23-24 season, after Cambridge transferred from Kentucky, the guard brought energy off the bench and moments of brilliance on the court. Now, in […]
For head coach Mark Pope, the true measure of his Kentucky team won’t just be the points they score, but the possessions they stop. “It’s really important. It’s going to determine how good we are this year,” said Pope, emphasizing the role of defense in shaping his team’s potential. The coach recently pointed to a […]
Update: Well, it looks like Trent Noah is ok after that first-half scare! However, Noah did not play in the second half, hopefully for precautionary reasons. After the game, Mark Pope said Noah was “good to go,” so it seems like he’s not in danger of a prolonged absence. ————- It took all of one […]
I mean we knew that right? It kind of reminds me of guards that played for John Calipari at Kentucky. They were talented recruits, had pretty good college careers but then exploded when they got to the NBA. It makes you wonder how we laid an egg against Kentucky and Florida with a talent like […]
Mark Pope was so distraught after Kentucky lost 84-70 to Georgetown in their second exhibition game that he resembled Coach Herb Brooks in the movie “Miracle,” after Team USA lost 10-3 to the Soviet Union in a friendly prior to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. That’s how much he cares about this team, […]
Kentucky basketball finds itself in an enviable position, named as a top-three finalist for two of the most dynamic forwards in the 2026 class: No. 1 prospect Tyran Stokes and 5-star athlete Christian Collins. With both players listed as power forwards, the natural question is: can they actually play together? After a deep dive into […]
Christian Collins, a 5-star small forward from St. John Bosco in California, has trimmed his list to three. Collins, who is the No. 12-ranked player in the 2026 class at Rivals, has included Kentucky, USC, and UCLA in his final schools, according to Joe Tipton. The California native has included two top-tier programs in his […]
Kentucky’s 84-70 exhibition loss to Georgetown was a jarring reality check, but the most concerning part wasn’t just the final score. It was the admission from head coach Mark Pope afterward that his team was completely unprepared for a defensive scheme he knew was coming. ‘I just did a poor job’ After the game, Pope […]
Just one week after Kentucky basketball looked like world-beaters in a physical, dominant win over No. 1 Purdue, the hype train came to a screeching halt. Friday night’s 84-70 exhibition loss to the Georgetown Hoyas wasn’t just a loss; it was a blaring, five-alarm warning sign about this roster’s most significant potential weakness. It reminded […]
As the 2025-26 college basketball season kicks into gear, Kentucky basketball is still waiting for its first commitment in the high school class of 2026. Granted, Kentucky has focused heavily on the transfer portal since Mark Pope arrived, while his current team is full of guys who could return for next season, including Jaland Lowe, […]
If you want to understand the subtle but significant shift happening within Kentucky basketball under Mark Pope, don’t just watch the ball. Watch the bench. Watch the huddles. Watch the reactions after a missed shot or a bad call. A meticulous focus on body language, spearheaded by assistant coach Alvin Brooks III, is quietly reshaping […]
Lexington native Reece Potter missed Friday night’s Exhibition game vs. Purdue with an illness, according to a Kentucky spokesperson. Thankfully, Kentucky was still able to make easy work of Purdue, winning 78-65. It’s an unfortunate setback, as this was a game Kentucky had 10 players log double-digit minutes, so it stands to reason he would […]
It’s hard to believe we are finally here. It’s back, well sort of. Sure it’s an exhibition game and it doesn’t count, and the game is on a weird network where most of you might not be able to watch but hey it’s still basketball right!?!? Purdue comes into this one as the preseason #1 […]
As Purdue heads to Lexington today to play Kentucky in an exhibition, we are just one Daniel Jacobsen away from its season opener against Evansville on November 4th. Twelve days and Purdue will try to live up to its #1 billing, and that starts with the most reworked part of its rotation from last year’s […]
Where will Josh Irving be going? That’s the question this morning, as the 4-star big man from Pasadena, California, is set to announce his commitment at noon today. Irving, who is ranked as the 63rd overall prospect in the class, is down to Kentucky, Louisville, and Texas A&M. Irving visited Louisville and Texas A&M last […]
Kentucky has the opportunity this season to have one of the most versatile and deepest rosters in college basketball. With an All-American talent in Otega Oweh, combined with a great transfer portal class and recruiting class, Kentucky may have one of the most talented rosters in the country. ESPN’s Jay Bilas recently unveiled his three […]
Josh Irving, a top-100 recruit in the 2026 class, is set to announce his commitment on Thursday, October 23rd. He will announce his college decision live on the CBS Sports College Basketball channel at 12:00 PM ET. The Pasadena, California native is down to three schools in his recruitment. Kentucky, Louisville, and Texas A&M. However, […]
Texas five star recruit Bryson Howard, who is down to Duke, Kentucky and UNC, will announce Tuesday afternoon at 4:30. A gifted 6-6 two-way player, Howard would fit right in with Jon Scheyer’s system. He has also said that his priority is to find a program that treats people like family. Sounds like a good […]
With Kentucky’s first exhibition game against Purdue just four days away, one of the country’s top 2026 recruits is set to announce his decision on where he will play college basketball next year. Bryson Howard (Frisco, Texas), a top-15 recruit by both 247 Sports (No. 12) and Rivals (No. 11), is set to announce his […]
Indiana men’s basketball recruiting target Anthony Thompson, a 5-star forward out of Western Reserve Academy in Lebanon, Ohio, will announce his college decision tomorrow, per On3/Rivals’ Joe Tipton: Thompson’s finalists are listed as Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, and North Carolina. Rivals ranks him as the 6th highest-rated prospect in the class and 2nd […]
This marks the 25th straight season that Gonzaga has been ranked in the preseason Associated Press Poll. The Zags join Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, and North Carolina as the only programs to appear in each of the last 16 preseason AP Polls. No. 21 Gonzaga (387 votes) has matchups with No. 23 Creighton (158 votes), No. […]
Michael C. Johnson-USA TODAY Sports No Mi Casita this time This morning it was reported that Baylor’s co-associate head coach Alvin Brooks III would be leaving to become the associate head coach on Mark Pope’s staff at Kentucky. This news comes after Kentucky tried and failed to hire Scott Drew for their head coaching vacancy and after other members of Drew’s staff left including the other co-associate head coach, John Jakus, who is now the head coach at Florida Atlantic. Vacancies lef...