Wonder why men's college basketball does not play 4 quarters and do you wish it would change

Get used to this news. Like Iowa & Iowa St last summer. Now that sports gambling is a phone app click away nationwide, the stories of college players getting caught betting is only gonna dramatically increase.

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And before anyone says "so! He's an adult! It is legal for everyone else!" Sorry, rules are rules.

Every college athlete, every pro athlete has it preached to them by speakers and team officials that they cannot bet. At all. On anything. Signs are up in every college locker room across the country. They all know they can't do it. Why, because they get into holes, then they are asked to help make this Saturdays game a little closer than expected.

This guy is pretty dang solid for ripping from one to the next...

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Then he won't get pushed around so much.

He always squints like he’s having a hard time seeing the bench between plays. He might be a sharpshooter with some rec-specs!!!

Picturing Ricky Vaughn

Hello HOB. I’m on the road tonight returning home from a funeral out of town. I’ll be listening to Cal’s weekly radio show but won’t have the summarized notes until later tonight. Just a heads up…

* Cal says it was good for the team to win a game in a tough place to play while not having their A game. They had to find a way to win. This team needed that.

* lineup of Wagner, Reeves, Sheppard, Mitchell, Onyenso was really dialed in at both ends of the floor late in the Arkansas game. That may be the main group right now then the game is on the line.

* Noted that Jordan Burks was outstanding at practice today. (he kinda seems like odd man out right now, so Cal may be trying to boost his spirits)

* Said they have had a lot of open guys in the offense that they aren’t finding lately, guys that they were finding routinely a couple of weeks ago. Said he made a point to stop practice and underscore when they were finding them today. “That’s what you should look like.”

* Cal said freshman G Rob Dillingham returned to practice today after his weekend illness and looked pretty good. Added nobody wants to play more than that kid, but if you saw him during shootaround, you could tell he wasn’t well.

* says we have a couple of games where we look as good as anyone in the country and a couple of games where we looked like we could lose to anybody. But if you’re paying attention to what’s going in in college basketball, everyone’s in that same boat. The team’s ceiling remains as high as you can get, but to get there they have to start taking positive strides forward every game, and that’s going to be a real challenge with the schedule they have coming up.

* Reeves is their best perimeter defender, which is a crazy turnaround from last year. Said they used to just try to put him on the worst perimeter guy and hope he’d be OK. Now he’s stronger, more physical, more confident.

* Ugo was the difference in that game, Cal says flatly. Thinks Burks can have a similar breakthrough.

* Reed looked like a deer in headlights at SC. Cal had never seen him like that since he got to UK. Started poorly vs ARK but difference was he took his coach’s advice, looked him in the eyes at halftime, and said “Coach, I’ve got this. I’m fine.”

* Cal would like to see his guys get off social media for the rest of the year. It’s too big a focus now for young people. Big difference between now and just back to when Tyler Ulis played.

* Caller says team just looks different when Reed is on the floor. Cal steers it toward a “but what about Ugo?” Ha. Classic Cal there. Good try, caller. But says that he still loves the energy boost Reed and Rob gives them coming in together.

* there were 6-7 more 3s to be had at Arkansas. Shows the team video of how they were available with an extra skip pass.

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Login to view embedded media I for one am shocked a program as clean as Tennessee would resort to cheating

In the All A Classic. Scored 37 in a win over Owensboro Catholic.

Very heady player with great fundamentals. Strong handles with both hands. Quick shot from distance, released exactly the same way every time. Sees (and comprehends) the whole court and actually (like Reed Sheppard) is more effective as the second guard because of his ability to advance the ball on the fast break and move without the ball in the half court offense. He has obviously been very well coached throughout his basketball life and his play and instincts remind me of Indiana great Steve Alford.

Physically, he is a tough SOB and I believe he has the footspeed and quickness to play in the SEC. He plays below the rim but we don't need him to be Dr. J. UK fans will definitely love his effort and he can really shoot it.

When we beat Georgia there were a lot of posters here saying that we shouldn't be excited about that win because we fell apart at the end and we need to learn to close.

Then we do exactly that and beat Arkansas on the road by playing very well at the end and the same posters said we shouldn't be excited because we struggled so much at the beginning.

Feels like those posters should have been happy with the end of game improvement shown from Georgia to Arkansas and acknowledged it, but for some reason they didn't

So to summarize:
strong early suspect late vs Georgia (win)= not happy we can't close
suspect early strong late vs Arkansas (win)= not happy we start slow

Is the only way to be happy by firing on all cylinders at all times and winning every game by 20?

Does anyone know where I can find a Youth basketball jersey for the players currently on the Men's team? Specifically DJ Wagner. I can only find Booker/Davis, etc from years past or from the Women's team.

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Tennessee is reported to have Major violations across multiple sports. Who knows where this goes.

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just sat behind Coen on a flight from Lexington to Detroit. Watched game film of Indy and Tennessee. Anyone know what this could mean? Recruiting? Was wearing UK gear.

I don't have any tattoo's but do enjoy watching this show. Some are really good artist and do good tattoos and some are why I will probably never have a tattoo as I wouldn't want those crap tattoos on my body. Also, if a lot of it isn't scripted tattoo artist must be the angriest people on earth, other than UK fans when we lose. Every episode is them screaming, yelling and cursing each other out. 😂😂

The guy that said "I don't care about the law" and just created his own lane that didn't exist so he could get past everybody and gun it at the red light so I can be in front of everyone else. Am I supposed to care if he lived or died last night?

I don't.

Will not answer in real time but will put in a mailbag for early this week.

Fire away. Could be about spring football, current recruiting, offseason developments, etc.

Is this going to be a game where Adou plays a lot, with main duty being defense? How do we slow him down? Dude is good and seems to be on fire. Do we need to show him up, or give him his and try to shut down his team mates?

Anyone see his threats on Twitter? Someone made a documentary about Providence/Cooley and Goodman messaged the creator directly and threatened to sue him and told him he might go to jail.

Downfall of Goodman finally?

I used to go into games knowing that they would win. It was pretty much a sure thing and I was shocked at a loss, even to a good team. I no longer feel that.