By Kyle Arensdorf karensdorf@kykernel.com Veterans are supposed to be the team’s go-to players, the ones who absorb the flak from hostile fans and perhaps even feed off of it. For a few road games this season, sophomore guard Aaron Harrison was that player. But for the majority of road games the Cats played, freshman guard […]
History was made Tuesday night as undefeated UK won its 26th game of the season by defeating Tennessee 66-48 at Thompson-Boling Arena. The 26 straight wins is the best start to a season in UK’s history. The Volunteers played scrappy in the first half of the game, shooting 54 percent and were down by just […]
Students took full advantage of classes being cancelled by hitting “the Bowl” for sledding and football. Video by Marcus Dorsey
By Kevin Erpenbeck kerpenbeck@kykernel.com The UK Basketball team (25-0) escaped the Lexington snow storm by arriving early in Knoxville, Tenn., in preparation to face the Volunteers on Tuesday. The decision to leave a day early for the road game was made after Deputy Director of Athletics DeWayne Peevy and Associate Athletics Director of Basketball Operations […]
By Joshua Huff jhuff@kykernel.com Seven UK players scored eight or more points during the Valentine’s Day massacre of 2015 as No. 1 UK ran South Carolina off the court in Rupp Arena in a 77-43 rout. The game was hardly in question after the first ten minutes as UK jumped out to an 18-3 lead […]
By Derek Terry sports@kykernel.com UK baseball will open the 2015 season on Friday in Wilmington, N.C., where the Cats will play Ball State of the Mid-American Conference. The matchup will be the first of three games that UK will play during the weekend, facing Richmond on Saturday and host team UNC-Wilmington on Sunday. Ball State […]
By Kevin Erpenbeck kerpenbeck@kykernel.com After two straight road games that tested the Cats’ reserve, No. 1 UK (24-0) returns home to face South Carolina on Saturday. The Cats survived upset bids from Florida and LSU in their last two games to remain perfect on the year. On Sunday, UK trailed Florida 30-28 at halftime. It […]
By Joshua Huff jhuff@kykernel.com Where would Mississippi State be without freshman Victoria Vivians? Certainly heading back to Starkville, Miss. suffering from a far greater loss than the 92-90 one the Bulldogs endured on Thursday in double overtime against a Makayla Epps-led UK team. The 6-foot-1 Carthage, Miss., native scored 39 points for a Bulldogs team […]
By Kevin Erpenbeck kerpenbeck@kykernel.com Call it insane, amazing, exciting or crazy. All four words were used to describe the final play of UK’s double-overtime game against Mississippi State on Thursday. After sophomore point guard Makayla Epps missed a jumper with five seconds left, a mad scramble for the ball occurred under the basket, with senior […]
UK begins tough stretch, starting with No. 13 Mississippi State By Kevin Erpenbeck kerpenbeck@kykernel.com Tough is not a word that has been synonymous with Mississippi State women’s basketball in recent years. The Bulldogs have had one winning season in the last four years and haven’t appeared in the NCAA Tournament since 2010. That perception has […]