UK’s Labissiere is No. 2 player in final ESPN rankings
UK signee Skal Labissiere moved up to No. 2 in the final ESPN Top 100 for the class of 2015, but he couldn’t get past Louisiana State signee Ben Simmons for the top spot. Simmons and Labissiere are...
View ArticleBusy week for Calipari continues with more visits
UK Coach John Calipari will get to stay close to home this weekend with the Nike circuit in Lexington, the Under Armour circuit in Louisville and the Adidas circuit in Indianapolis. Calipari is more...
View ArticleESPN analyst predicts Newman, Diallo, Jaylen Brown
ESPN didn’t have any five-star recruits announce their college decisions on the network’s basketball recruiting special Tuesday, but analyst Paul Biancardi did make some predictions on where some of...
View ArticleScout.com analyst: UK’s best shot is with Diallo
Scout.com recruiting director Evan Daniels spoke with the Herald-Leader on Tuesday night about some of the remaining basketball prospects on UK’s radar, and he said the Cats have the best shot with one...
View ArticleSkal Labissiere is No. 2 in updated 247Sports rankings
UK signee Skal Labissiere is the No. 2 overall recruit in the class of 2015, according to the updated 247Sports player rankings released Thursday. 247Sports national analyst Jerry Meyer likened...
View ArticleCalipari: ‘One or two more guys, and we’ll be fine’
UK Coach John Calipari spoke briefly about immediate recruiting needs Thursday, and it doesn’t sound like the Wildcats’ class of 2015 is going to get that much bigger. Calipari accepted the Adolph Rupp...
View ArticleIt’s official: Alex Poythress will return to Kentucky
UK forward Alex Poythress tweeted Thursday that he is ready to be part of “something special” next season and added a #BBN hashtag at the end. A UK spokesman confirmed to the Herald-Leader that the...
View ArticleTweet watch: Jaylen Brown cuts his list; Predictions
Scout.com’s Evan Daniels is reporting that No. 1 recruit Jaylen Brown has trimmed his list to UK, Kansas, Michigan, California and North Carolina, which means UCLA and home-state Georgia and Georgia...
View ArticleUK basketball’s projected roster for 2015-16 season
Five-star small forward Jaylen Brown is no longer an option for Kentucky following his commitment to California on Friday night. Here’s what UK’s roster looks like next season, pending the possible...
View ArticleUK reaches out to possible 2015 basketball recruit
Kentucky was among the many schools that contacted Tennessee shooting guard LaGerald Vick on Monday, the day after he backed out of his commitment to Southern Methodist. Vick — a 6-foot-5 prospect from...
View ArticleSkal Labissiere is No. 1 in final Scout.com rankings
UK signee Skal Labissiere earned the No. 1 spot in Scout.com’s final class of 2015 player rankings, which were released Tuesday. Labissiere — a 7-footer from Haiti — jumped up from No. 3 after a...
View ArticleThree UK basketball signees in top 50 of RSCI rankings for class of 2015;...
University of Kentucky basketball signee Skal Labissiere is the No. 2 overall prospect in the class of 2015, according to the newly released Recruiting Services Consensus Index (RSCI) rankings. The...
View ArticleUK basketball team’s projected roster for 2015-16
Four-star post player Isaac Humphries has committed to Kentucky and will move to the class of 2015, giving the Wildcats another talented late addition for the upcoming season. Here’s what UK’s roster...
View ArticleJersey numbers posted for UK basketball newcomers
The University of Kentucky released the official men’s basketball roster for the 2015-16 season Friday afternoon, meaning we now know for certain which numbers all of the incoming Wildcats will be...
View ArticleFreshmen fill the stat sheet in UK’s exhibition opener
Jamal Murray missed a triple-double by just one assist, and the rest of his fellow UK newcomers also had their moments in the Cats’ 117-58 exhibition victory over Ottawa on Monday night at Rupp Arena....
View ArticleCharting college debuts of the nation’s top freshmen
Many of the top basketball recruits in the class of 2015 made their college debuts Friday night. Here’s a statistical rundown of how those players (and other freshmen of interest) performed in their...
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