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John Clay: Providence’s Bryce Hopkins is a nightmare waiting to happen for Big Blue Nation

It’s the worst-case scenario. For the second straight year, Kentucky suffers a first-round knockout in the NCAA Tournament. Last year, Saint Peter’s. This year, Bryce Hopkins.

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Is Speeding Up OKC’s Rebuild

Forget tanking. With a breakout star, the Thunder are thinking playoffs.

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John Clay: This week’s SEC Tournament might mean a little more for this Kentucky basketball team

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — As a rule, John Calipari downplays the annual SEC men’s basketball tournament. Deems it unnecessary. Claims it rarely changes seeding for the Big Dance. Says it’s primarily for the fans. The Kentucky coach always says his team will try to bring home the trophy, of course, but…

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Mark Story: Is a factor that led to Kentucky's debacle vs. Saint Peter’s about to bite the Cats again?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — It seems self-evident that if Kentucky does not have Cason Wallace moving forward, the Wildcats’ season is cooked.

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Jerry Stackhouse Was Full of Emotion After Vandy Stunned Kentucky

It was a special night for the Commodores.

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Vanderbilt stuns Kentucky as Cats lose Cason Wallace to injury

LEXINGTON, Ky. — What was supposed to be a night of celebration in Rupp Arena turned into a nightmare scenario for the Kentucky Wildcats.

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John Clay: Kentucky basketball faces its next test: Can the Cats keep it in overdrive?

A basketball season is a series of tests. Early tests. Middle tests. Late tests. Hard tests. Easy tests. A team won’t pass every test. Bobby Knight’s Indiana was the last to ace them all way back in 1975-76. Still, it must pass more than it fails. To be elite, many…

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John Clay: UK is playing its best basketball of the season. Do we owe John Calipari an apology?

Headline then: Has John Calipari at Kentucky run its course?

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John Clay: If you can figure out this 2022-23 Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, please let know

You do it. You figure this team out. You tell me how this Kentucky team can lose at home to South Carolina and then beat Tennessee on the road. You tell me how Kentucky can look so bad one Saturday against Georgia, then look so good the next in sweeping…

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‘Coach’ Tyler Ulis is settling back in at Kentucky. ‘I think he’s where he should be.’

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A few days into his new gig — and just a few minutes into Kentucky’s most important basketball game of the season — Tyler Ulis was all in.

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Mark Story: The BBN’s worst nightmare: Is Kentucky basketball becoming ‘the next Indiana’?

As Kentucky fan frustration has mounted in what has become a UK men’s basketball season of discontent, one often hears a variation on the same theme:

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John Clay: Are injuries the reason for Kentucky basketball’s disappointing season, or an excuse?

After Kentucky’s 75-68 loss at Georgia on Saturday, UK head coach John Calipari sarcastically mentioned he was sure it would be noted the Cats were without injured players Sahvir Wheeler and CJ Fredrick.

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Mark Story: For Kentucky basketball, it’s time to send an SOS — Save Oscar’s Season

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Back in the summer, when John Calipari hypothesized over what coaching challenges he would face with the 2022-23 Kentucky Wildcats, one the UK head man surely never considered would be his needing to justify keeping Oscar Tshiebwe on the court.

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John Clay: After another failure, we know what we know about this Kentucky basketball team

LEXINGTON, Ky. — At this point, we’ve seen enough of this Kentucky men’s basketball team to know it is what it is, a team that continues to come up small in big games.

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Report: Rondo Working to Join John Calipari’s Kentucky Staff

The veteran point guard last played in the NBA last season.

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John Clay: It’s OK for Kentucky to be a boring basketball team, as long as it stacks the wins

Let’s be honest, the first half was rather, well, blah.

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Mark Story: As February looms, the question persists: Is UK going to make the NCAA Tournament?

After Kentucky disappointed an electric Rupp Arena crowd of 20,418 by falling to then-No. 9 Kansas 77-68 Saturday night in the final SEC/Big 12 Challenge, an uncomfortable reality hangs over the 2022-23 UK season.

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John Clay: Antonio Reeves’ instant offense has been a key to Kentucky's win streak

LEXINGTON, Ky. — There’s a difference between a shooter and a scorer.

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John Clay: Now in a much different headspace, Kentucky basketball faces an interesting week

Let’s begin with a state-of-the-club message delivered Saturday from the head basketball coach.

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Kentucky lets loose from 3-point range, holds off Texas A&M for third straight win

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky kept the momentum in its favor Saturday afternoon.

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John Clay: How a Marvel movie performance saved Kentucky's teetering season

LEXINGTON, Ky. — There comes a moment in every college basketball team’s season in which the boat is rocking. It’s either going to capsize, throwing everyone into the water, or it’s going to find its way upright and into smoother sailing ahead.

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Tyler Hansbrough refuted John Wall’s story about their hilariously unpleasant recruiting interaction, but nobody believes him

Sounds exactly like something Tyler Hansbrough would do.

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After the Wildcats’ huge win at Tennessee, five questions for Kentucky basketball

After Kentucky’s flip-the-script 63-56 win at fifth-ranked Tennessee on Saturday, five questions for the reborn Wildcats:

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Jay Bilas Doesn’t Believe John Calipari Will Leave Kentucky for Texas

The Wildcats are 11–6 on the season, while the Longhorns are in the market for a new coach.

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John Calipari Catching Heat for Putting Hands on Holly Rowe During Interview

Kentucky's long, strange trip of a 2023 season continues.

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