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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. He
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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-10 player
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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 up every
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First, a mea culpa. My last article was hilariously titled “Why UK fans shouldn’t worry too much”. I believed UK’s struggles over the last few weeks of the season were explainable and not systematic, and that UK would get back to a more impressive form when the stakes
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The Wildcat takeover of Tampa didn’t turn out quite like everyone had hoped. Instead of adding to their dominance in SEC Tournament championships, UK fell to the wayside while Tennessee captured their first SEC Tournament since 1979. Much of Wildcat Twitter was draped in doom and gloom afterwards, and
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The name of the game in the postseason is “survive and advance”, and UK achieved that at least. The Cats didn’t look great against Vanderbilt but seized control behind a resurgent TyTy Washington to oust the Commodores and set up a semifinal tilt against Tennessee. The Volunteers are one
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With Big Blue Nation staging a Tampa Takeover, it’s once again time for Kentucky to try to add to their record number of SEC Tournament titles. It’s an unusually strong year for the conference, with a Wildcat team considered a national title contender only managing to land a
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Unless otherwise noted, the data below comes from my publicly available stats engine. See the data for yourself: https://hoopsinsight.shinyapps.io/HoopsInsight/ Kentucky doesn’t have much left to prove in the regular season. They have shown they can blow out even the best opponents, they can grind out
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Kentucky’s run through the gauntlet of SEC play is almost over, and the Wildcats have largely survived intact. Kentucky’s guards had their share of bumps, bruises, and missed games, and the Cats likely won’t be claiming the SEC regular season title, but they made statement after statement
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The Kentucky Wildcats are nearing the end of maybe the most difficult 4 game stretch that any top 20 team will play this season. As if the quality of opponent didn’t make the games tough enough, Kentucky has been down 2 starters for the last 2 games and much
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Last Saturday Kentucky once again proved their mettle by facing a tough conference foe while short-handed and coming out with a victory. Kentucky is now 4-0 in 4 conference games where they were missing one or both of their starting guards, with wins over Georgia, Vanderbilt, Mississippi State and Alabama.