I have been all about Z since day 1 and I know we have a following here. I know some against but all rainbows and unicorns baby.

Z has played 6 college games with 12 or more mins. The guy brings fun, IQ, passing, blocking, D, FT shooting and offense. He is the unicorn we have missed every year. He is the guy who brings us to the next level. Field of 68 podcast, Jay Wright, all writers and analyst see It. Please Cal don't blow it.

Today he came in we were down he blocked, made a shot when he caught Dillys pass for the dunk and the rest was history.

Bradshaw was good on offense for the first time in months against ARK. But I love Bradshaw. Great sub for Z. Ugo looks defeated. Bad on D, bad hands. Bad FT shooter, just the old back to the basket 7 footer. Doesn't work with this group. I like the guy, but square peg, round hole.

Z changes so many shots, blocks so many and most won't drive on him. He changes the game on both ends. He dan pull up, pass and drive with little effort and dunk. More importantly he rebounds. Also in his little use he leafs us I'm blocks per minute. Best FG%, best FT%, best 3pt% out if all 3 bigs.

He's the guy and anyone with eyeballs knows he's the difference maker. Bradshaw played well on offense but was a ghost on D. Ugo is toast. So let Bradshaw back Z up. Tre was rusty, expected after a month off. Early on Z had to deal with Tre out there with him a lot.

But to finish the game last 6 mins. Bradshaw says what changed the game was Zs block, Dilly brings up Zs dunk late.

Man it is Z. Z, Z...

If I had to log a pick today it would be Kentucky. Some thing GT. I would lean UK but he's talking about making a late decision so TBD. Would be a 4-star corner add.

Good listen. Fired me up a bit. He answered plenty of questions that are batted around on here. He even mentioned the "promise" issue that many people like to use saying he promises playing time. I really hope that we make a deep run and it shuts people up. Not because I like Cal over the program, but because I want us to win, and I think some of you hate Cal so much that you can't get behind our team. Lets go Cats.

slow at work today

3pt% defense on season is 32.6% and 8.4 makes per game.. 25.6 attempts per game

In UK's losses is is 39% and 9.6 makes per game on almost 25 attempts.

So a 4.8 more points in threes given up in those losses... the average losing number is average of 6 points
If we take out the debacle at USCjr... the average points beaten by is 4.7

5 of our 8 losses, UK has given up 11 or 12 threes and the % is staggering at 40.5%

So the theory of cut back the three's attempted, made and percentage...makes sense. Currently, achieving 1st goal

The last three games: the same staggering 40.7% with 8.3 makes but only on 19.7 attempts....

The "greatest night in UK basketball history".

3. Rob Dillingham
12. Reed Sheppard
27. DJ Wagner

2nd Round
38: Ugonna Onyenso
51. Justin Edwards

This is embarrassing on a new level. I'm not a big WBB fan but love it when we are competitive. Good grief...

And our average seed is a 4.43 with the two teams ahead of us, SDSU and Auburn at 4.38 and 4.33 respectively. The two teams behind us BYU and Clemson have much more room between us at 4.85 and 5.40.

If even just 1 or 2 of those brackets move us up to a 4-seed, that would probably be good enough to move us past SDSU and Auburn and have us firmly on the 4-seed. Where as it also seems Kentucky likely isn't going to be any worse than a 5-seed, even if we drop to Tennessee.

Obviously need to take care of Vandy tomorrow night, and hope Purdue can beat Illini, and Florida can beat Alabama. Kentucky could honestly find itself knocking on a 3-seed after tonight's games are done.

They're saying the poster that started this thread is a very reliable source.

… Z was just as important if not moreso during those final minutes, due to his DEFENSE and REBOUNDING!!!

Somewhere around the 6:00 mark, Rob had pulled us to within 3. Then Mitchell comes down and chucks a horrible 3 early in the shot clock. Brick. Arkansas goes the other way and has a straight line drive to the rim until Z challenges it at the last second, forcing the dude to go left hand and whiff on the layup. I couldn’t believe he missed. We were very lucky tbh, but Z did contest it. IMO this was the most important play of the game. Arkansas hits that layup and they go back up five. A little later, he again contests several more layups which the Hogs all miss, as well as grabbing practically every defensive rebound. Those stops/rebounds were the ballgame. His alley oops were just icing on the cake!!!

What do you think?

Glover was committed to Bama til this month and is now pretty wide open.

I honestly would really love to see this game be a w. My blind hatred for them eliminates rational thought haha no really, here's hoping to their bootays being tightened because of a possible home court loss combined with our improvements. I'm a huge Z fan so I'll start with his ability to spread the floor and pass.

Has connections to UK. If he is indeed a take from the '26 class you would have to love their chances.

Still at Tartleton State. Currently on a 10 game winning streak. Was just looking through all the different conference standings and noticed it.

He’s in his 4th year and they’ve won more games every season. 10, 14, 17, and now 22-7 with 2 more regular season games left. He’s doing alright it seems.

TLDR- Rupp is no longer an advantage to Kentucky and pails in comparison to basically all other CBB schools.

I’ve been going to Rupp for over 35 years. Always lower arena and often close to court. Big games, small games, all games.

I have watched a deterioration of that stadium, especially over the last 15-10-5 years, that is unprecedented and increasingly a problem.

I’m going I try to compartmentalize the three actions that are a problem so talking about this is easier:

1) The Show

Go to any decent schools arena and you are going to find A SHOW BUDDY.

Flame throwers, smoke shows, a DJ, an MC, crowd chants throughout the game, loud rap music, things falling from the rafters, shirt giveaways, and I can go on and on.

It’s is beyond obvious we have decided we are above “the show”. We don’t even chant “blue/white” anymore before the game, much less during….ever.

2) Opera House Atmosphere

The most stunning thing to me is how great our fans are on the road, at neutral, and in tournaments.

At home, however (and you know this FOR A FACT IF YOU HAVE SAT IN LOWER AND ARE A LOUD FAN) you and literally shit on if you are a standing up, screaming fan at Rupp. It is not anyone’s fault except the ADs over the years. Season tix were over allocated to previous players (big time), but it’s led to the “boue hair” syndrome in the lower.

We must find a way to make the lower arena loud and intimidating. If you combine them with the already loud uppers it may immediately become best environment in CBB again.

3) Media must be updated, it sucks.

Unless CBS is in town (they bring their own stuff), our cameras look like they’re from 2011 and we don’t have any media cut in valves that make the production look so much better even for incompetent production staffs like ESPN. Jay Bills ice cream shots can actually look good, believe it or not. More importantly, our crowd can sound way louder and cooler, especially if we fix the lower arena.



Anyway, these are just my thoughts on Rupp and
How it affects our team. If we were unbeatable at Rupp we would be a #1 seed right now and considering we’ve almost always been unbeatable at home, I think it’s the most important thing to fix.

Please tell me the stuff I’ve missed, I wanna hear it.

May as well get a thread started for this weekend’s proceedings.

Read ahead material:

Login to view embedded media
….and Trevin Wallace listed by CBS Sports as a sleeper prospect to watch:

Who should ky fans be rooting for tonight?

Rondo had 87. Shep has 76 and needs 12 to break it.

A minimum of four games remain, but we SHOULD be able to count on at least six more games.

Do he or don't he?

I say yes, but barely...

This kid has had a tough road. Wouldn't be surprised to see him skip college altogether.