UK season night and day from last year

How would you like to trade Memorial Coliseum for the Carrier Dome or another, better basketball locale?
With a few changes, like a new head coach and six super recruits, consider it done.
That is the difference between this time in 2009 and now.
One new ambassador head coach and six recruits to mesh with the holdovers.
It’s the
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POSTSEASON PREVIEW: UK Hoops’ turnaround equals high seed in NCAA

Raise your hand if you saw this one coming: a basketball team going from National Invitation Tournament regular to an NCAA Tournament top-four seed?
Matthew Mitchell, put your hand down. Obviously, you don’t count.
To tell you the truth, my hand is one of those not raised. Before the season, I would have never guessed Mitchell would
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POSTSEASON PREVIEW:Columnist’s preseason picks don’t match up with postseason

Now that the weather’s turning, I can use the excuse of spring cleaning to get rid of some things I don’t ever want to see again.
I need to get rid of one particular document burning a hole in my hard drive: my preseason top 25, as published in October.
My picks weren’t awful. I aced the
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Winning SEC is nice, but not enough

In most college towns, any day in which the home team staples down a conference championship, clinching an undefeated home season in the process, is a pretty good day.
At the very least, it should yield some sort of celebration.
Not in Lexington.
In Lexington, who has time to celebrate a hard-earned Southeastern Conference title? The Cats have
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Drop the charade: Senior Day about more than seniors

Let’s stop the charade we’ve been playing in college basketball for the past few years when it comes to the last home game of the season.
You know what I’m talking about — Senior Day.
The event that once celebrated the fact that college kids stayed four years, completed degrees and more all while playing in the
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Column: Win shows there’s no need to worry about the Cats

ATHENS, Ga. — All the talk since Saturday’s loss has been that, well, UK’s all talk.
From the perimeter, it can’t hit shots even though UK head coach John Calipari has insisted that this is not a poor shooting team.
The talk was also that UK can’t rely on its shooters if DeMarcus Cousins isn’t scoring down
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Tennessee win bigger than UK loss

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Against UK, everything is big.
The Cats are used to the magnifying glass. For them, Saturday’s loss wasn’t much more than any other loss. Even though they, the nation’s No. 2 team (and No. 1 among the ranks of overachievers), faltered for just the second time this season they left Thompson-Boling Arena with a
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Patterson comes alive when it matters most

With the first shot of the game, junior forward Patrick Patterson made his message clear — this is his team now and he will do everything he can to make sure the Cats aren’t going to lose again anytime soon.
At least, that’s what he showed Rupp Arena on Thursday night. Facing a still-pesky South Carolina
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UK’s opportunity for revenge has arrived

This is the day you’ve been waiting for since Jan. 26.
It was circled on the calendar, especially after the South Carolina Student Government sent that snotty letter claiming supremacy. It didn’t become erased when the South Carolina Student Body President, Meredith Ross, sent her apology.
Revenge has been in the air and on Thursday the opportunity
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Cats’ grinder perfect prep for tournament run

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Since 2005 — UK basketball’s last win in Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym — the Cats’ football program has won four times in Nashville.
Fittingly, it took a Rich Brooks-esque game to break the streak.
Somewhere buried in the combined 47 personal fouls (28 in the second half), an Eric Bledsoe technical foul (that could’ve been
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