Kentucky Rumors & News

Bleacher Report "Class of 2023 5-star point guard Robert Dillingham committed to Kentucky on Friday, per Joe Tipton of On3. Dillingham had originally verbally committed to NC State in December, but he announced March 19 that he was reopening his recruitment. A 6'2" dynamo..." June 25

Bleacher Report "5-star forward Matas Buzelis has chosen to bypass college to commit to the G League Ignite for the 2023-24 season, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. The Brewster Academy (New Hampshire) star chose the G League Ignite over schools like Kentucky, Duke and North Carolina...." June 24

Bleacher Report "Jacob Toppin isn't done at Kentucky. Toppin, who is the younger brother of New York Knicks forward Obi Toppin, announced Tuesday in a video message that he is withdrawing from the 2022 NBA draft and returning to the Wildcats for the 2022-23 campaign. He ended his message..." June 01

The Athletic "Kentucky wing Shaedon Sharpe will remain in the 2022 NBA Draft, he announced Tuesday. He is The Athletic's No. 5 prospect in the upcoming draft. Sharpe was a five-star recruit in the Class of 2022, but enrolled at Kentucky in January with the intention of playing next season...." June 01

The Athletic "John Calipari has found his replacement for assistant coach Jai Lucas, who was hired away by Duke a month ago. Coincidentally, it’s the same man who replaced Lucas at Texas when Calipari hired Lucas away from the Longhorns two years ago. That man is 44-year-old K.T. Turner, sources told..." May 31

Bleacher Report "Kentucky basketball legend Reggie Warford died on Thursday at the age of 67.  Per Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Warford had been diagnosed with numerous health problems in recent years and was surrounded by his family when he..." May 26

CBS Sports "John Calipari, after he was fired by the Nets 23 games into his third season as an NBA coach, was officially hired as an assistant on Larry Brown's Sixers staff in September 1999 -- but he knew it was only temporary. By then, the man who had previously turned a miserable UMass program into..." May 24

247 Sports "For a few weeks now, the college basketball community has been wondering who new Duke head coach Jon Scheyer would choose to fill the last vacant seat on his bench. A source tells 247Sports that Kentucky's Jai Lucas is the hire and will be joining the Blue Devils as an..." April 29

ESPN "Illinois State transfer Antonio Reeves, one of the best scorers in the portal, committed to Kentucky on Wednesday. Reeves chose the Wildcats over a final five that included Nebraska, Xavier, Oregon and DePaul. "I..." April 27

ESPN "Kentucky coach John Calipari says that Shaedon Sharpe has not made a final decision on his playing future and that he is continuing to discuss with the wing player's family whether Sharpe will stay in the NBA draft or play for the Wildcats next season. "All I..." April 22

The Athletic "Kentucky wing Shaedon Sharpe will enter the 2022 NBA Draft, sources confirmed to The Athletic. Sharpe, a consensus five-star prospect out of high school in the 2022 class, enrolled early in Lexington and arrived on campus in January. He did not play in any games. Sharpe is a potential..." April 21

A Sea of Blue "Oscar Tshiebwe, one of the absolute best and most beloved players in Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball history, will bypass the 2022 NBA Draft and return to Lexington for the 2022-23 season. Tshiebwe made the announcement Wednesday live on SportsCenter. This..." April 20

The Athletic "It feels like we’ve seen this movie before. And so many sequels lately. Since 2015, if you’re a Kentucky fan beginning to get excited about the prospect of signing the No. 1-ranked high school recruit, brace yourself for an epic letdown. There was Skal Labissiere, who at least..." April 13

Bleacher Report "Any time a college program can land a player who has drawn comparisons to Jayson Tatum, it is a good day on the recruiting trail. That is exactly what happened to the Duke Blue Devils on Friday when Mackenzie Mgbako joined their 2023 recruiting class. He is the second five-star..." April 09

A Sea of Blue "Former Kentucky Wildcats signee Skyy Clark has found his next home, as the 5-star guard has committed to the Illinois Fighting Illini. The Louisville Cardinals, USC Trojans, Maryland Terrapins, Tennessee Volunteers and Washington..." April 08

ESPN "Kentucky freshman Bryce Hopkins entered the transfer portal Thursday morning. Hopkins, a 6-foot-6 forward, was ranked No. 33 in the ESPN 100 for the 2021 class. The player out of Fenwick High School (Illinois) failed to carve out a consistent role during his..." April 07

The Athletic "Kentucky guard TyTy Washington is declaring for the 2022 NBA Draft, he announced on social media Wednesday. Washington is listed at No. 14 on Sam Vecenie's latest Big Board, projected to get picked at No. 15 by the Thunder in his mock draft. "After discussing my options with..." April 06

Bleacher Report "Wisconsin's Johnny Davis, Iowa's Keegan Murray, Gonzaga's Drew Timme, Kansas' Ochai Agbaji and Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe were named the five finalists for the 2022 John R. Wooden Award on Wednesday. Agbaji is the only..." March 31

The Spun "For the 10th time in the history of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, a 15 seed knocked off a No. 2 seed on Thursday night when Saint Peter’s bounced Kentucky out of the Big Dance. John Calipari can’t stop thinking about the loss. Coach Cal..." March 20

TMZ ""I woke up and I realized that I wasn't dreaming. Saint Peter's did just knock off University of Kentucky on primetime TV and it was so, so many emotions running through my body." That's St. Peter's College basketball legend Keydren Clark -- who..." March 18

Larry Brown Sports "Kentucky lost to Saint Peters in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, which was the biggest upset of the day on Thursday. The Wildcats’ 85-79 overtime defeat to what many thought was an inferior team came as a shock to many people. It also led many John Calapari critics to voice their..." March 18

For The Win "One of the top-rated NBA draft prospects is Kentucky freshman Shaedon Sharpe. But he has never played a second of college basketball. The 18-year-old guard currently ranks No. 8 overall on my latest big board. Although he is healthy, don’t expect him to ever see the..." March 17

CBS Sports "Skyy Clark, a five-star point guard who signed with Kentucky in November, announced Sunday that he is asking for his release from the school and will reopen his recruitment. The Montverde (Florida) star is ranked as the No. 5 point guard and No. 27 overall prospect in..." March 07

Clutch Points "LSU women’s basketball team head coach Kim Mulkey absolutely lost it and got in the face of a referee after seeing what she deemed as unfair officiating in the game against Kentucky. Late in the fourth quarter of the game, during which LSU was way behind 70-58, Mulkey..." March 05

USA Today "The speculation is understandable, if misplaced. The sight of John Calipari instructing the Kentucky basketball players on the bench to leave the Bud Walton Arena court to go to the locker room before Saturday’s game was finished was certainly unusual. As Kentucky..." February 28

Larry Brown Sports "Kentucky sent some of its players off the court early before Saturday’s game at Arkansas ended, raising some questions about sportsmanship. However, they had a different reason for doing the publicized walk of shame. The Wildcats lost 75-73 to the Razorbacks in an electric..." February 27

Bleacher Report "Every team in men's college basketball has a potentially fatal flaw, even the ones atop the AP Top 25. Most of the top-10 teams have more than enough strengths elsewhere to make up for their biggest shortcomings. But those flaws still exist, just waiting to be..." February 23

The Spun "There are a lot of mixed feelings on Rick Pitino among Kentucky fans, but all members of Big Blue Nation should like what their former coach has to say about this year’s Wildcats. Even though he’s busy with his own Iona team, Pitino has apparently been keeping an..." February 15

Bleacher Report "Top NBA draft prospect Shaedon Sharpe will not play for Kentucky this season after joining the program in January, coach John Calipari announced Monday. "After talking with Shaedon and his parents, we want to end all of the speculation by again saying that he will not play for us..." February 07

Sporting News "Kentucky head coach John Calipari landed his first No. 1-ranked recruit since Anthony Davis when Canadian Shaedon Sharpe committed to the Wildcats back in September. Sharpe was the top prospect in the Class of 2022, but if you look at those rankings today, you may notice his name is..." January 21

ESPN "Shaedon Sharpe, formerly ESPN's No. 1 prospect in the 2022 high school class, can apply for the 2022 NBA draft as an early-entry candidate, a source told ESPN on Thursday. Sharpe started the current school year at Dream City Christian in Phoenix, but he had sufficient credits to..." January 20

The Athletic "The lasting image of Joe B. Hall — the one cast in bronze for a life-sized statue on the University of Kentucky’s campus and painted on a 30-foot-tall mural that watches over his hometown of Cynthiana, Ky. — is a serious and bespectacled man in suit and tie with a rolled-up..." January 15