Not suggesting UK should go after him because there will be plenty more to come. Looking forward to to seeing who becomes available.
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I know some of you have pretty much given up on Tre Mitchell contributing very much to the team at this point, but when Mitchell was playing well early in the season, we actually had contributions from our bigs. He was guarding guys who were much bigger than him and holding his own, in my opinion. He's the only guy we have who has shown he can score with his back to the basket. He was also doing very well in the mid-range, catching the ball in the middle of the zone and making shots at the elbow and in the lane. And early in the year, he was playing that stretch 4 or 5 and making bank out there shooting the 3. We need THAT version of Mitchell in this tournament if we're going to go very far. He has struggled shooting the ball since late January. But he's had time to heal and get back into the groove now. I hope he will make an appearance. I think we will need Mitchell before all is said and done.

Yesterday I saw respected members of this board (whom I consider to be intelligent people) claiming that losing to Houston in E8 would be considered a "successful season" for UK?!

Since when do UK fans hang Elite Eight banners? We ran Tubby off for losing 10 games a year, now that's fine with us? Hell, I remember when that clown Tom Crean made Sweet 16 rings for his Indiana team, we all thought that was hilarious, now we are ready to let Cow's sh*t slide if he limps into the second weekend?

Not a single #1 seed or Final Four for 9 years straight and we set Elite Eight as our goal?

Sorry, but are you kidding me?

As far as I'm concerned, Cow has got to win the whole damn thing and redeem himself for the pathetic coaching performance in the 2010 and 2015 tourneys (when he had superteams at his disposal) or he can hit the bricks ASAP.

We were promised the Gold Standard, so why do we settle for mediocrity?

This reported by Jason Hoskins of www.catscoverage.com. He decommitted on March 8th.
He plays for Montverde Academy in Fla. Supposed to be a great shooter.

After listening to the player interviews, it just struck me how young some of these guys are, so I checked.....

Just the younger guys:
(Age as of today, Years/Months/Days)
Wagner 18/10/16
Dillingham 19/2/16
UGO 19/5/24
Burks 19/7/9
Sheppard 19/8/25
Bradshaw 19/10/6
Edwards 20/3/4
Ivisic 20/7/11
Thierro 20/10/12

Reed Sheppard. Way to go, Reed!!💙💙

Virginia set bball back about 120 yrs with that performance last night. I mean you were fighting for a 10 seed. Its not like 10 seeds are not decent teams. That was awful!!!!

My thoughts exactly. So much entitlement with the young generation

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ESPN's NBA draft gurus posted an article today with blurbs on the top 50 NBA prospects in the NCAA tourney. Out of the top 35, UK has 7 players listed. Next most is UConn with 4, Arizona and Colorado with 3 and several other schools with 2 or 1.

UK's prospects:
#1 Dilly
#2 Reed
#13 Justin
#19 DJ
#25 Ugo
#32 Antonio
#33 Big Z

2024 NBA draft: Top 50 college prospects in the NCAA tournament
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Alex McLaughlin is a late 2024 PWO addition as a long snapper for Kentucky.

The Weddington, N.C., native is a 5'10, 220-pound transfer from Illinois, where he was a sophomore this past year. The year before that he was at NC State.

He saw action in one game for the Wolfpack in 2022 as a redshirt freshman and didn't see action for the Illini this year. Seems like the kind of guy you bring in if you like what you've seen from him on film or to add to the competition as we've seen snapping be an issue before. He was a Rubio 5-star LS coming out of high school ranked No. 11 at that task by the scouting network.

We are still trying to gather information, and granted it is a slow go. However, there are some dots to connect, and some opinions to make that I do think have some basis behind them. What we do know is that Sanon is a very, very strong candidate for reclassification. It is pretty widely believed that he will move up to 2024. More times than not when players do that in the spring the greatest factor is roster fit for the following year. Kentucky is one of the places that offers that. If UK loses the entire backcourt then Boogie Fland and Travis Perry are the only true guards. There is an automatic spot for Sanon. Keep in mind that Calipari is playing four ball handlers this season. The more the better. I go back to one of the signees fathers telling me the staff said there will be two additions. We know now that Karter Knox was one. Could the reclass of either Sanon or Darryn Peterson be the other? It probably makes the most sense on March 10. We will continue to dig.

For those without ESPN+, Rob is 1. Reed is 2. Edwards is 13. Wagner is 19. Ugo is 25. Z is 33. No Bradshaw.

Local university here in Canyon, TX, (WTAMU) played in regional final tonight at home in Canyon. No 1 seed vs Number 2.

Great tournament game with local school trailing all first half but scoring over 50 points in 2nd half to win. They’re moving on to Elite 8 in Evansvile.

WT!s fight song is music to ON ON U of K with different lyrics. Chatted with guy in front of me. Was wearing UK hoodie so he asked about that. He related that he has a friend in Lexington who works for WKYT name of Lee Howard. Maybe some of you know him?

WT has a nice new arena but years ago they played in a 2000 seat gym when they were known as West Texas State. It was called the Box and I attended several games there in the 90s.

Every time I was there I sort of marveled that in 1966, Texas Western played their last regular season game in that tiny gym just a few weeks before defeating the Cats for the national title. Still the worst loss in my 72 years of fandom.

** Can report that Western Hills EDGE Javeon Campbell visited for the first day of Kentucky's practice today. That's significant because he was supposed to visit April 4 and is coming in early for the first day of spring practice.

** N-Kye Wynn (2025 OL) was mentioned here yesterday as one of the OT targets they probably have the best shot with. The 6'4, 268-pound OT from Michigan set his first official visit to Kentucky and that's noteworthy. Has a number of P5s and now you just probably wait and hope that the landscape remains favorable to Kentucky.

** Still feel like 2024 JUCO OL prospect Anfernee Crease is someone who Kentucky has a great shot of landing late. He officially visits in April and I think things are in good shape but you have to wait and see if anybody else offers at this point. Would be a late addition they would get excited about.

** Louisville OL commit Jake Cook is a player to continue to keep in mind. He's someone Kentucky liked before he committed there and the interest is still strong. No clue whether that's one they would be able to flip but he would probably be in the category of a number of OT prospects they are taking a hard look at.

“ When you play for the name on the front the name on the back prospers. When you play for the name on the back the name on the front never prospers”
I realize his teams haven’t done well recently but I agree with this whole heartedly.

I have noticed that often I will make a post, and when I hit enter, it says something went wrong, I go back and try again and then it works. Lately, I've tried starting threads and when I hit post thread, it goes away but the thread doesn't show up. Is this a common problem, or is it something with my account maybe?

Just have the feeling if they underperform this March Cal will jump ship and head to another school. I think he’s going to get offered from a couple of places either way and it’s a real possibility he would accept an offer especially if they get bounced early.

I want this team to make a deep run don’t get me wrong, but nothing would surprise me either if they didn’t.

He got snubbed should have been on at least the 2nd or 3rd team