It was during the midst of ESPN’s Tuesday Big Ten game, with Purdue putting the screws to Wisconsin, that TV analyst Dan Dakich, began talking about the network’s next game, Kentucky-South Carolina. Dakich said that this was about the quietest Kentucky team in years. I pondered it and thought how little I’d heard about the […]
The college sports world made the complete segueway from football to basketball tonight, so perhaps it was appropriate that Alabama was in action and going down to defeat. The SEC began conference play and Missouri knocked off the Tide 84-68. Mizzou is one of three teams with a legitimate shot at the conference crown, as we lay out the landscape for the coming two months in SEC basketball.
The buildup to the Final Four concludes today with a look at Kentucky. Following the same format we did with Louisville, Ohio State and Kansas, TheSportsNotebook takes a look at the Wildcats’ personnel, tracks their path to New Orleans and looks back on the program’s recent Final Four history.
Kentucky faces a big week in the SEC starting tonight, with a nationally televised home game against Florida (7 PM ET, ESPN) and then a big Saturday night prime-time trip to Vanderbilt (9 PM ET, ESPN). The Wildcats are 23-1 and the only loss came at Indiana on a buzzer-beating trey. Kentucky is ranked #1 in the country and if the season ended today would clearly be the team to beat in the NCAA Tournament. With a big week foreshadowing the crunch of the SEC schedule, TheSportsNotebook breaks down Kentucky piece-by-piece.
The SEC gave the country a good Saturday of college basketball. Tennessee upset UConn and within conference play Kentucky survived Alabama 77-71, and Mississippi State won an overtime thriller over Vanderbilt, with all three games on national television. Today, TheSportsNotebook will take a look at the race for the conference championship and how the contenders […]