but it won’t be for his basketball achievements. The four-time NBA all-star will graduate this weekend after completing his undergraduate work through UK Athletics’ Post-Eligibility program.

With a new coach, Darian DeVries, likely to embrace modern basketball trends of emphasizing the three-point shot, IU should enjoy a first-year bump as U of L and UK did this season. Over the last ...

Mark Pope and Kentucky's season has been over for more than a week and the Wildcats are already starting to rebuild.Kentucky's first addition this offseason was Kam Williams from Tulane, then last ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Fans showed up to support both the UK women’s basketball team through their loss in the afternoon and the men’s victory in the evening. The crowd at the Tin Roof in ...

It led to an NCAA rule change for the men’s basketball tournament that barred a team from playing on its home court. Fiserv Forum will be neutral in name only. UK, as a 3-seed, should have ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Vernon Hatton, a basketball legend and UK Athletics Hall of Famer has died at the age of 89. According to a release from UK Athletics, Vernon was known as a member of ...

Basketball coach Rick Pitino was run out of ... But now, he's back in New England. Thursday night, his St. John's University team notched a win in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Providence.

At the time, the Big Ten, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Pac-10 and Southeastern Conference (SEC) were college basketball’s power conferences, with teams in the Northeast and New England playing in ...

who played in 19 games as a walk-on at UK from 2006-09. All season long the SEC was championed as the best conference in men’s college basketball. And on Selection Sunday, the SEC set a record ...

The game in Knoxville, Tennessee, presents another Quad 1 opportunity for UK with UT sitting fourth in the NET rankings. Reach Kentucky men’s basketball and football reporter Ryan Black at ...

The Athletic bracketology for UK basketball Joe Rexrode, a senior writer for The Athletic, published a bracket prediction for the site Tuesday. In his projection, the Wildcats are the No. 2 seed ...

That’s the place where I trace my bloodline.” This year’s edition of Madness — the preseason UK basketball tipoff event long billed as a way for fans to become familiar with players on ...