As Darius Miller sat down for postgame interviews, the blue UK chair ripped, forcing Miller – and the horde of media prepared to ask him about one of his best game of the season – to relocate. “You set me up!” Miller said to a media relations director nearby. Miller had what his coach said [...]
Continue reading …A quick message to any readers, letting you know that the Kernel will not be having a live blog for UK vs. Coppin State tonight. Our sincerest apologies. You can still follow game coverage on Twitter. Follow @kykernelsports for score and game updates and @kernelasmith for commentary, analysis, and general game notes. Again, apologies to [...]
Continue reading …Notes and Quotes (and video) from today’s media session, including some Louisville stuff, Doron Lamb’s improving game and his role off the bench, and coming back from the holiday break. Yes, UK is playing Coppin State Tuesday. But it’s the game Friday — the one against Louisville — that everybody knows is coming up. Except, [...]
Continue reading …Note: For the table of statistics, see below Earlier today, John Clay of the Herald-Leader had an interesting statistical roundup of the shots per minute of various UK players from the last four years. It placed Terrence Jones at the top, averaging a shot every 2.13 minutes of play. I decided to take that research [...]
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Technically speaking, Doron Lamb is a bench player, in the sense that he begins the game with his warmups on as five other UK players step on the floor for tipoff. But there’s nothing about his game that says he’s a benchwarmer. Lamb, who set the UK freshman record with 32 points Wednesday in a [...]
Continue reading …UK has a little Lamb, who fleeced Winthrop for a record-breaking point total. Doron Lamb scored 32 points, a UK freshman record, leading the way as UK (9-2) tore away from Winthrop (5-7) with torrid shooting to an 89-52 victory. “It’s an honor to break the record,” Lamb said. “Kentucky basketball is the biggest program [...]
Continue reading …Enes Kanter could stay for his sophomore year if he is ruled ineligible for his sophomore year, according to Enes’ father via The Sporting News. From the story, in which Enes’ father “guaranteed” Enes would stay if ruled ineligible for this year: “Enes would do anything to play and help UK, his teammates and fans,” [...]
Continue reading …A quick message to any readers, letting you know that the Kernel will not be having a live blog today. Our sincerest apologies. You can still follow game coverage on Twitter. Follow @kykernelsports for score and game updates and @kernelasmith for commentary, analysis, and general game notes. Again, apologies to anybody who was ready for [...]
Continue reading …For Terrence Jones, a game is more than a buzzer-to-buzzer affair. At least, that’s what UK wants it to be for him. It starts well before the game, when he is (hopefully) not napping. It continues in the minutes preceding tipoff, when the coaching staff watches Jones’ warm-ups and relays a report to head coach [...]
Continue reading …Some notes and quotes from today’s media opportunity: John Calipari said he has not been contacted by the Dominican Republic about coaching the national team — This was obviously the story heading into the day after a blog reported the Dominican Republic was trying to get Calipari to coach its national team for Olympic 2012 [...]
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