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Kentucky Basketball head coach Mark Pope and his team will start their journey to what they hope is a chance at title No. 9 as they begin practice today. The Wildcats are all living in The Lodge on campus, building team chemistry and connecting on a personal level to jumpstart their season. Pope’s first season […]
When news broke that Kentucky president Elip Capiluto had found his Mitch Barnhart successor, fans immediately began to search out all the information they could find out about Michigan St. AD Jason “J” Batt. After doing a little digging of my own, I gotta be honest, you should be ecstatic Batt started as an NCAA National Champion […]
The NBA Finals have officially wrapped up, and the New York Knicks are NBA champions once again. After a 53-year drought, and a total of 19,312 days since the Knicks last hoisted the trophy, they can do it now. The city that never sleeps will certainly not rest after this historic playoff run. With only […]
Happy Sunday, Big Blue Nation. The biggest news surrounding Kentucky athletics on Saturday centered around the future leadership of the athletic department. Multiple reports indicate that Kentucky is zeroing in on Michigan State athletic director J Batt as the leading candidate to replace Mitch Barnhart, who is set to retire in late June after 24 […]
Six months into his tenure at Kentucky, Will Stein is already backing up one of his biggest promises. The Wildcats currently hold a top-15 recruiting class nationally, providing early evidence that Stein’s commitment to building through high school recruiting wasn’t just offseason rhetoric. According to 247, Kentucky currently has the 15th-best recruiting class in the […]
The University of Kentucky may have found its next athletic director as Mitch Barnhart prepares to retire on June 30. According to Ross Dellenger, Kentucky has zeroed in on Michigan State athletic director J Batt to take the same position in Lexington. Batt hasn’t been with the Spartans very long, as he was hired back […]
Good morning, BBN! Most fans thought that after getting Milan Momcilovic, the blockbuster moves were over. With one roster spot left, surely, they were looking for a reserve, right? Well, Mark Pope said, ” Hold my beer.” On Friday, KSR reported that Kentucky is showing interest in 17-year-old Serbian star Nikola Kusturica. The 6-foot-9 wing […]
The Kentucky Wildcats basketball team is on campus for summer workouts, as all 14 players on the roster are in Lexington. The team started workouts on Monday, and practices will begin next week. Senegal native Ousmane N’Diaye has now been declared eligible to practice with the team after passing the two stages of compliance that […]
Kentucky Football added another piece to its growing 2027 recruiting class on Friday, as 3-star edge rusher Jaylen Mercer announced his commitment to the Wildcats. Mercer, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound prospect from Cincinnati, Ohio, chose Kentucky over a list of notable programs that included Notre Dame, Texas A&M, Oregon, Ole Miss, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Louisville, West […]
Kentucky Basketball may not be done adding talent to its roster just yet. Following the addition of Iowa State transfer forward Milan Momcilovic, the Wildcats still have one scholarship spot available for the 2026-27 season. According to Jack Pilgrim of KSR+, Kentucky is being considered for Serbian standout Nikola Kusturica, one of the top international […]
I personally love soccer; it is perhaps my favorite sport to both watch and play. Not everyone feels that way, but when you compare tournaments around the world, two usually come to mind: March Madness and the World Cup. It got me thinking: What would it look like if we had an NCAA basketball tournament, […]
Kentucky Football received some preseason recognition yesterday when four Wildcats were recognized with Southeastern Conference preseason honors. Willie Rodriguez, a junior tight end in his third season at UK, was named to the All-SEC preseason Second Team. Joining him was senior teammate and center Coleton Price — a recent transfer from Baylor. Veteran defensive back […]
As Mark Pope prepares for his third season as Kentucky’s head coach, he is having an interesting approach to team building. He is having all 14 scholarship players live together in the Wildcat Coal Lodge throughout the summer. Practice and summer workouts are set to begin on Monday, June 15, and will last for an […]
The Kentucky Wildcats coaching staff has been doing their thing on the recruiting trail ever since Will Stein was announced as the head coach. The staff picked up some very talented commitments during their first official visit weekend just one week ago. The coaching staff planned to have more visitors on campus this upcoming weekend, […]
Kentucky basketball head coach Mark Pope has received his fair share of criticism when it comes to recruiting and overall roster construction. It’s mostly been his inability to land top recruits and/or top college players in the transfer portal. Recently, though, Pope landed one of the best high school prospects in the 2027 recruiting class […]
Before ever stepping onto the court at Kentucky, incoming Wildcats freshman guard Maddyn Greenway has added another major honor to her remarkable résumé. The Providence Academy standout was named the 2025-26 MaxPreps Female National Athlete of the Year after a historic high school career that saw her dominate basketball, soccer, and track and field. “Being […]
Mark Pope has put together a solid squad for his third season in Lexington, but one player sticks out as the biggest unknown—Ousmane N’Diaye. It’s always difficult to project how foreign players will adjust to American basketball, especially in the SEC. We saw Andrija Jelavic last season, who was pretty underwhelming, albeit in a bigger […]
Update: The SEC has now announced time slot windows for the entire 2026 Kentucky Football schedule. The entire first month of games will kick off in the afternoon, but after that, Kentucky could exclusively play night games until the regular-season finale vs. Louisville, which is also an early game. Kentucky’s Week 5 and 7 games […]
Kentucky Basketball head coach Mark Pope says the program is in no rush to fill its final assistant coaching vacancy, noting that upcoming NCAA decisions could play a major role in how the staff is ultimately structured. “We’re taking our time with this last assistant coaching position,” Pope tells UK Sports Network. “We’re trying to […]
Kentucky Basketball assistant coach Mikhail McLean has been named the Bahamas National Team head coach, the organization announced on Wednesday. McLean’s tenure will begin with World Cup qualifying in July. “It is a great honor to be named the head coach for The Bahamas Senior Men’s National Team,” McLean said in a press release. “It […]
Kentucky Football added another major building block to its 2027 recruiting class on Wednesday as 4-star interior offensive lineman Dominic Black announced his commitment to the Wildcats. The 6-foot-5, 290-pound prospect from New Madison, Ohio, chose Kentucky over offers from Tennessee, Indiana, Louisville, Missouri, and UCLA, among others. Black is rated as the No. 191 […]
Good morning, BBN! Kentucky Basketball coaches are spending this week closely evaluating top high school talent at the NBPA Top 100 Camp in Rock Hill, South Carolina, one of the country’s premier recruiting events. The camp features many of the nation’s best prospects from the 2027, 2028, and 2029 classes, including several players who already […]
Kentucky Basketball assistant coach Mo Williams recently posted a video on Instagram of the Wildcats’ locker room, showing the name and number above each player’s locker. One returning player, Braydon Hawthorne, decided to change his number, and we have one number that will be worn for the first time in 72 years! Other than those, […]
When news broke that Milan Momcilovic would be joining Kentucky Basketball, everyone was feeling much better about where the roster was headed. But now that he is here, the question becomes where he plays and how Kentucky utilizes the roster they have in the best way? There are quite a few interesting dynamics that could […]
Greetings, BBN! It’s been a wild offseason for Kentucky Basketball, though it was thankfully a productive one after landing highly-touted transfer Milan Momcilovic. Kentucky picked up several other promising transfers and landed former NBA standout Mo Williams as an assistant coach, a move that is already bearing fruit. It was rocky at times, but overall, […]