Just saying, kick their ass in gear after a win that made them cocky

Adolph Rupp was forced to retire in 1972. The University said it was because he was 70 years old and that was the mandatory retirement age for University employees. While that was true, an exception most certainly could’ve been made. However, UK had not been to a Final Four in six seasons and we had not won it all in 14 seasons. So, it was time for Rupp to leave.

That was Adolph Rupp, folks. At the time he was clearly the greatest collegiate basketball coach in history. But, it was time for him to go. He fell victim to the expectations that he himself created, and that the fans now demanded.

Now, fast forward 51 seasons. UK has another hall-of-fame coach that created outlandish expectations because of his early success. But guess what? If we don’t make the Final Four this year, the drought will reach nine seasons, tied for the longest in this program’s history. And the championship drought will reach 11 seasons.

Some of you say fan expectations are unrealistic. I feel the exact opposite. It’s fan expectations that keep the administration from becoming complacent, and ensures that we start over even when it’s controversial.

And for this particular fan, it’s time to start over with someone new.

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*****

This guy didn’t get much in the way of accolades but he was terrific. Gonna miss him.
Confidence level was high when he came on the field.
He missed what… 1 fg all year.
Really good.
Thank you Alex

If U of L and Fla ST are the two best teams in the conference it's a sad day. Game is hard to watch.

Living in TN we don’t get to see this. Is he treated with kid gloves or do they rip into him for destroying UK basketball?

AS IF #1) we needed that pointed out, and…
#2) it’s someone else’s job — other than his — to actually oversee the improvement.

“Welp, all my players sucked at defense tonight”

Uhh coach they’ve been sucking at it for several years. So what are your answers???

20-10 Bama on top of Georgia in the 4th

Georgia isn't playing well like they haven't most of the year.
What they need to do is visualize they are playing UK.

What is next??? My list:

Fire the secondary coach
Fire the OLine coach
Fire the WR coach
Fire the DC (sorry Brad White your time is over but thank you for the dedication)
Hire a DC that will have a scheme change. We have the athletes to do so

Keep Deone Walker and Silver
Get a transfer QB1
Get a transfer RB1
Keep Key and Brown at WR (even though Brown is probably transferring)
Keep LB Wade (sorry to his brother leaving)
Keep Eli Cox and LT Cox for Covid year
Keep shamar Porter from transferring
Get a DB to replace Phillips who needs to move on.
Keep Jackson at LB and if Wallace isn’t a 3rd round pick then bring him back.

Let Coen have full reign of the offense!!!!

I figured UConn would control the game…so far it’s the other way around. UConn looks intimidated

He can't even do that anymore.

KENTUCKY MEN’S BASKETBALL POSTGAME NOTES
RUPP ARENA AT CENTRAL BANK CENTER | LEXINGTON, KY.
DEC. 2, 2023
ATTENDANCE: 19,990

Final Score: UNCW 80, No. 8 Kentucky 73

Team Records and Series Notes

• Both teams now have a 6-2 record on the season.
• This was the first meeting between Kentucky and UNCW.
• UK will play one game a week for the next five weeks, beginning Saturday, Dec. 9, as the Wildcats travel to Philadelphia to take on Penn at the Wells Fargo Center. Game time is noon and it will be televised on ESPN2.

Team Notes

• Key stats for UNCW: the Seahawks won second-chance points, 14-5, and bench points, 46-5.
• Kentucky tied its season high for turnovers with 14.
  • UK entered the game leading the nation in turnover percentage (10.9%), ranked second in the nation in turnovers per game (8.1 per game) and first nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (+2.56).
• Kentucky is 653-82 (88.8%) in the 48th season in Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center.

Player Notes

• Reed Sheppard led UK with 25 points, nine rebounds, six assists and two steals.
  • It is his third 20-point game of the season, including back-to-back games after tallying 21 vs. Miami.
  • He has had at least two steals in every game this season.
• Antonio Reeves had 14 points and has scored double figures in every game this season.
  • Has made a 3-pointer in 19 consecutive games.
• Tre MItchell had 11 points and six rebounds. He has had at least four boards in every game this season.
• Justin Edwards had 11 points, his sixth double-digit game of the season.
• Freshman Aaron Bradshaw played in his first game at UK. He had three points and two rebounds in 12:31 of game action and had a plus/minus of +11.
• D.J. Wagner, who had started the first seven games at point guard, missed today’s game because of injury.

Coach John Calipari

• Calipari has an 838-255 (76.7%) all-time on-court record, including 393-115 (77.4%) at Kentucky.
• Calipari is 323-65 (83.2%) at UK against unranked competition.
• Calipari is 1-1 vs. UNCW.
• Calipari is 226-22 (91.1%) in Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center.

In the First Half

• Kentucky started Reed Sheppard, Antonio Reeves, Justin Edwards, Adou Thiero and Tre Mitchell for the first time.
• Rob Dillingham and Jordan Burks were UK’s first substitutions with 16:48 remaining.
• UNCW scored on its first two possessions for a 5-0 lead and led the entire half.
• The Wildcats opened cold, making only two of their first seven shots with three turnovers, as UNCW increased its lead to 13-4.
• The Seahawks took their largest lead of 14 points at 38-24.
• UK scored the last five points of the half but UNCW took a 41-33 lead into intermission. It is the first time this season that UK trailed at halftime.

In the Second Half

• Kentucky began the second half with the starting lineup.
• Kentucky started the second half on a 15-5 run, capped by a Sheppard 3-pointer at 15:38 which gave the Wildcats their first lead at 48-46, coaxing a UNCW timeout.
• UK built the lead to six points at 55-49 with 12:27 to go but UNCW came back with a 13-1 run, making it 62-56 and the Seahawks never trailed again.
  • Trazarien White scored 18 of UNCW’s final 31 points. He finished with a career-high 27 points.
• UK got within two points on two occasions at 62-60 and 64-62 but got no closer.

So I took my grandsons to a Christmas parade and taped the game. Now I don’t think I’ll watch it . Couple of questions.



We shot so few threes , were they “running us off the line” like we did Miami? And I know he didn’t play much but what is everyone’s first impression of Bradshaw?

to Northwestern in OT. 92-88.

Nothing else matters.

a little bit of Ramel Bradley with a pinch of Russ Smith thrown in? (sorry hate the Cards but Russ was such a good player) He also reminds me of a throw back player Ed Davender a bit, just the way he can attack the rim. Thoughts?

And all those road games. Discuss...

Seeding is everything. We can't be losing games like this. Gotta win TWO that we shouldn't now just to make up for this one.

Cal you slick SOB I'm back in. You're doing an amazing job.

And be sitting at 5-3.

I think we have reached the time when we need to overreact!!! We need to blame Cal (which he admittedly he should have them play like defense like Miami by having them run off the 3 line). We need to blame all of our freshman and reeves (who missed shots that they make 9/10 times, sadly that one time happened multiple times tonight). We should blame really whatever else you want to. I don’t post a whole lot but I have been on the board for 10 years. But this loss sucked, it was painful and it was embarrassing. But in reality this was a trap game with a bunch of freshman. Let’s lose one in December against a team we beat 9/10 so that we win 2 in April. And if you are going to be really witty and say with Cal we won’t learn, get some new material.

should never use it again.

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