Kentucky Rumors & News

ESPN "Top-35 senior Bryce Hopkins announced his commitment to Kentucky on Monday, giving the Wildcats their second pledge in the 2021 class. Hopkins, a former Louisville recruit who decommitted from the Cardinals in August, chose Kentucky over a final list that..." October 27

CBS Sports "The plan is to still have non-league games this college basketball season -- and that'll likely remain the plan unless this getting-worse-by-the-day pandemic makes it something close to impossible. But, that said, news on Monday that ESPN is pulling the plug on the NBA-like bubble it..." October 26

USA Today "Chris Mack reignited the intensity of the Kentucky-Louisville rivalry with an inflammatory Twitter video last month. John Calipari claims he did not even watch it. "I didn’t," Calipari said. "Somebody told me about it. I can’t even..." October 26

The Score "Five-star guard Skyy Clark is committing to Kentucky's 2022 class, he announced Thursday on Instagram. Clark picked the Wildcats over interest from North Carolina, Memphis, and UCLA. The Nashville native is ranked 19th overall on the 2022 ESPN 60. " October 22

CBS Sports "The outlook for Kentucky's 2020-21 basketball season got significantly brighter on Wednesday when the program announcedthat Wake Forest transfer Olivier Sarr will be eligible for the upcoming season. The 7-footer finished second behind North..." October 21

USA Today "Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra joked that Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari will use the 2020 NBA Finals as a "great recruiting pitch." "I’m not sure he’s going to maximize that," Spoelstra said sarcastically about four former Kentucky players in..." September 30

The Big Lead "Chris Mack was in a trolling mood on Tuesday. Louisville's head coach took to Twitter and recorded a two-minute video where he very politely crapped all over Kentucky head coach John Calipari. Louisville and Kentucky are in danger of not playing this year and Mack clearly blames his..." September 29

ESPN "Kentucky basketball forward Keion Brooks Jr. said he backs a push by Black faculty members in the school's African American and Africana Studies department to change the name of Rupp Arena. The group recently requested the change, saying Adolph Rupp's legacy is tied to a history of..." August 28

A Sea of Blue "Kentucky has officially added James ‘Bruiser’ Flint to the men’s basketball coaching staff, the school announced Monday. He comes to Lexington following a three-year stint with the Indiana Hoosiers as an assistant coach. As expected, Flint will fill an..." August 25

USA Today "A group of professors in the University of Kentucky’s African American and Africana Studies Program has resurrected the debate over Adolph Rupp in the basketball-crazed Bluegrass State once again. They argue Rupp’s name has come to stand for racial exclusivity..." August 05

USA Today "Should Adolph Rupp have been faster to integrate the Kentucky basketball program? To hear Rupp tell it, his delay in signing a Black player until 1969, six years after the university’s athletic teams were officially desegregated, was due to circumstances beyond his..." August 01

CBS Sports "Kentucky trails only UCLA in college basketball lore, at least when it comes to most national titles won. The Wildcats have won it all eight times, starting with fabled coach Adolph Rupp's run of three titles in four years from 1948 to 1951. Since then, Kentucky's five..." July 29

ESPN "The faculty of the University of Kentucky's African-American and Africana Studies program has asked UK president Eli Capilouto to change the name of Rupp Arena because the legendary basketball coach's name "has come to stand for racism and exclusion" and "alienates..." July 23

12 Up "Getting top programs to play each other is not always easy in college sports, especially in a non-conference matchup during the regular season. Indiana and Kentucky have a rivalry in college basketball that stretches back to the 1920s. However, the two teams have..." July 02

12 Up "Kentucky was one of the hottest teams in college basketball before the NCAA Tournament was cancelled in March, so head coach John Calipari is surely itching to get back to work with his team in preparation for the 2020-21 season. Well, the Wildcats' official Twitter..." July 01

USA Today "Kentucky women's basketball coach Matthew Mitchell is recovering from brain surgery following complications from a concussion in March. "Coach Mitchell sustained a concussion in March," a UK spokesman said in a statement to The Courier Journal. "At the..." June 28

12 Up "The list of NBA free agents available to join forces with potential playoff teams for the Orlando-based restart operation was trimmed a smidge on Tuesday as reports confirmed that DeMarcus Cousins, who is currently recovering from a torn ACL suffered in August,..." June 23

The Score "The first step in the creation of the 2009-10 Kentucky Wildcats was the hiring of head coach John Calipari. Calipari had led Memphis to a 38-2 record and a trip to the NCAA championship game two years earlier, but that entire season was vacated because of the Derrick Rose SAT..." June 13

The Score "Kentucky head coach John Calipari is a Hall of Famer and one of the all-time winningest bench bosses in NCAA history, but the 61-year-old knows he wouldn't have reached those peaks without the black players who have suited up for him over the years. "Where I am now is..." June 06

12 Up "The New York Knicks' coaching search hasn't even properly gotten started, and already unusual names like Mike Woodson are being mentioned as potential candidates for the 2020 season and beyond. Insiders like Ian Begley and Stefan Bondy have mentioned some even more..." June 06

CBS Sports "The youth of college basketball has grown in importance as the one-and-done era has matured. Players are no longer consistently staying four years and winning championships, in part because it's no longer a prerequisite to success. 18- and 19-year-olds can make an immediate impact for..." June 03

ESPN "Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari canceled Monday's "Coffee with Cal" show, which has streamed live on Facebook to raise funds for coronavirus relief for the past three months, and instead asked supporters to have "a moment of silence" a week after..." June 01

The Score "Kentucky and Notre Dame play this fall to begin a three-year series between two of college basketball’s winningest programs. Kentucky hosts Notre Dame on Dec. 12 in the first regular-season meeting between the schools since Notre Dame's 64-50 victory at home on Nov. 29,..." May 30

ABC 7 Chicago "Kentucky and Notre Damewill play this fall, beginning a three-year series between two of college basketball's winningest programs. Kentucky hosts Notre Dame on Dec. 12 in the first regular-season meeting between the schools since Notre Dame's 64-50 victory at..." May 28

The Score "New UCLA guard Johnny Juzang will be able to play next season after getting a transfer waiver, sources told CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein. Juzang transferred from Kentucky in April ... " May 27

WYMT "Kentucky target Moussa Cisse, as some expected, has reclassified into the 2020 class. Cisse has Kentucky in his final six, which includes Memphis, LSU, Georgia, Florida State and Georgetown. " May 27

MSN.com "Doug Gottlieb did his late coach justice with an incredible tribute. Gottlieb wrote a great post on Instagram Saturday to pay tribute to Eddie Sutton, who died at the age of 84. Gottlieb played for Sutton at Oklahoma State from 1997-2000, becoming the school’s..." May 24

ESPN "Legendary college basketball coach Eddie Sutton, who won more than 800 games and was the first coach to take four different schools to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, died Saturday of natural causes, his family said in a statement. He was 84. Sutton died at his home in South..." May 24

TMZ "A group of 850 former Kentucky Wildcats cheerleaders are rallying behind the coaches fired over wild hazing allegations ... demanding they get their jobs back! As we previously reported, UK axed the cheer team's advisor, head coach and 3 assistants after investigation into a crazy..." May 21

Bleacher Report "John Wall will forever be tied to the University of Kentucky.  In one season with the Wildcats, the point guard was a consensus first-team All American, SEC Player of the Year and helped reboot a program that had fallen below its own enormous standards. He just never would've..." May 19

Yardbarker "The Kentucky Wildcats and Michigan Wolverines won't be doing any Christmas shopping in London later this year, after all.   On Tuesday, Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe tweeted that a game between the two universities scheduled for the O2 Arena in London on..." May 19

Complex "The University of Kentucky has fired its entire cheerleading coaching staff after conducting a three-month investigation into allegations of hazing, alcohol use, and public nudity, CNN reports. "The advisor and the coaches failed to stop a culture of hazing, alcohol use..." May 19

USA Today "When Kentucky athletics director Mitch Barnhart began his search for a coach to replace Tubby Smith in 2007, there was a clear favorite. Florida coach Billy Donovan, a former UK assistant, had just won his second consecutive national championship. No other coach could be considered at..." May 16

CBS Sports "Daishen Nix's recent decision to play for the NBA's G League rather than join UCLA and play college basketball next season has been called a possible "sea-change moment" for the sport -- and not in a good way. That after fellow five-star prospect Jalen Green also..." May 08

ESPN "Former Wake Forest big man Olivier Sarr, arguably the top college basketball transfer this spring, is transferring to Kentucky, he told ESPN on Wednesday. "I felt that was the best fit and the best opportunity for me," Sarr told ESPN. "Being able to..." May 06

A Sea of Blue "On Tuesday, Wake Forest center Olivier Sarr was officially added to the transfer portal after reports came out over the weekend that he was not yet officially in. It is believed that Kentucky will be one of the main teams involved in trying to get Sarr for the 2020-21..." May 06