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Fans of the Kentucky men’s basketball team got a mid-summer treat last week with actual live basketball from their favorite team. As expected, the Wildcats went 4-0 and showed their fans why much is expected this season. After 2 months of practice notes and breathless eyewitnesss reports
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Kentucky will once again go on an exhibition tour to the Bahamas this August as they look to get a head start on the 2022-23 season. In 2018-19, this trip served as an appetizer of some things to come: * Tyler Herro served notice that he would be a
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Kentucky’s offense has almost always been very good under John Calipari, and it’s often been elite. According to KenPom.com, only the 2021 season ranked outside the top 40 in adjusted offensive efficiency. In 13 seasons, the Wildcats have been in the top 25 in this stat 11
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In the 21 seasons that KenPom has rankings for teams, Louisville has been a fixture near the top. They have been a top-10 team in the final rankings in 9 seasons and a top-25 team in 15. But in the 2022 season the Cards plummeted to 127th as
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There’s an old adage that college basketball is a guard’s game. National champions tends to have players who can excel while dominating ballhandling and decision making. Even on a Kentucky team returning national Player of the Year Oscar Tshiebwe in the frontcourt, their ceiling will likely have a
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Most of the chaos around the transfer portal has calmed down as far as Kentucky is concerned, which means we largely know what the Wildcat roster will look like for next season. With Keion Brooks transferring and no recruits or transfers bigger than 6’7”, it seems like the role
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It has been a relatively quite last month for the Louisville Cardinals in terms of roster moves, but that seems about to change. Despite several open spots and over 1,600 possible transfers out there, the Cards had landed just Brandon Huntley-Hatfield, high schooler Devin Ree, and had Kamari
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As has been expected for the past few days, Antonio Reeves is now officially going to be a Kentucky Wildcat next season. I wrote quite a bit about Reeves in my last article, and I remain very high on him. In fact, I’m maybe even a bit more bullish
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As Thunder over Louisville kicked off the 2022 Derby Festival, the commitment of Brandon Huntley-Hatfield kicked off the Kenny Payne era as the first newcomer since Payne’s hiring. On paper he seems like a major addition, as the #23 rated recruit by RSCI in the class of 2021.
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Since I wrote my last UofL article looking at what they needed to do this offseason, there’s been some interesting movement but nothing very consequential to next season. The Cardinals still have a lot of roster spots to fill in in order to upgrade, and the transfer portal is
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In the world of college basketball, the University of Kentucky tries to do everything bigger and better than anyone else. Last season the Wildcats made a major splash by landing several heralded transfers. They snagged the leading assist man in the SEC in Sahvir Wheeler, a multi-time All A-
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The Louisville Cardinals men’s basketball program can put the nightmare of last season behind them, as daydreams of new recruits and transfers now occupy the minds of the fanbase. Whispers of new staff members (Milt Wagner? Nolan Smith?) and stay-or-go decisions from roster holdovers seem to pop