| Kentucky Wildcats News | | |  The Kentucky Wildcats have announced that they will be playing the Baylor Bears in two non-conference games. The first game will take place next season in December, when Baylor will travel to Lexington. The game will be nationally televised on CBS. This will be a rematch of the Elite Eight matchup between the two teams in the 2012 NCAA tournament. The Wildcats went on to win that game 82-70 to advance to the Final Four before winning the national championship. The unique aspect of this series will come in the 2013-14 season. In December 2013, two Kentucky teams will travel to Dallas to face off against Baylor in Cowboys Stadium. The first game will feature the Kentucky women’s basketball team versus the 2012 NCAA National Champions Baylor Lady Bears. Immediately following that game, the two schools’ men’s teams will play each other. Kentucky head coach John Calipari said the following on his website about the series: In 2013-14, we’re going to pull off another of those ‘Only at Kentucky’ moments when we do a first-of-its-kind doubleheader.
This will be an exclusive series featuring both the men's and women's champions of 2012 . Tickets for the double-header will be split evenly between the two schools, and Calipari made it clear that “we hope to break the NCAA attendance record.” The announcement comes a week after Baylor announced that it would cancel the remainder of its series with Mississippi State and after the NCAA committee made it clear on Selection Sunday that non-conference competition is important. Calipari said, “When we schedule, I want to create experiences, not just games.” Read more Kentucky Wildcats Basketball news on BleacherReport.com Kentucky Wildcats Basketball Announces Unique Matchup with the Baylor Bears The Kentucky Wildcats have announced that they will be playing the Baylor Bears in two non-conference games. The first game will take place next season in December, when Baylor will travel to Lexington. The game will be nationally televised on CBS. This will be a rematch of the Elite Eight matchup between the two teams in the 2012 NCAA tournament. The Wildcats went on to win that game 82-70 to advance to the Final Four before winning the national championship. The unique aspect of this series will come in the 2013-14 season. In December 2013, two Kentucky teams will travel to Dallas to face off against Baylor in Cowboys Stadium. The first game will feature the Kentucky women’s basketball team versus the 2012 NCAA National Champions Baylor Lady Bears. Immediately following that game, the two schools’ men’s teams will play each other. Kentucky head coach John Calipari said the following on his website about the series:In 2013-14, we’re going to pull off another of those ‘Only at Kentucky’ moments when we do a first-of-its-kind doubleheader.This will be an exclusive series featuring both the men's and women's champions of 2012 . Tickets for the double-header will be split evenly between the two schools, and Calipari made it clear that “we hope to break the NCAA attendance record.” The announcement comes a week after Baylor announced that it would cancel the remainder of its series with Mississippi State and after the NCAA committee made it clear on Selection Sunday that non-conference competition is important. Calipari said, “When we schedule, I want to create experiences, not just games.”Read more Kentucky Wildcats Basketball news on BleacherReport.com Kentucky Basketball: Projecting the NBA Potential for Every Draft Hopeful
After winning the 2012 NCAA National Championship, six players from the University of Kentucky have declared their intentions to chase their dreams of playing in the NBA.The entire six-man rotation, which consists of Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Darius Miller, Terrence Jones, Doron Lamb and Marquis Teague, is ready to hear their names called in the 2012 NBA draft.Before projecting where they might fall in the pecking order, it is important to analyze what sort of future lies ahead for each of these draft entrants. Knowing what strengths and weaknesses each possesses will help project where each player could be selected in the draft, as well as which teams could best use their talents and personality traits.Therefore, the following slides will analyze the maximum pro-potential for all six draft participants from the 2011-12 Kentucky Wildcats. Each player will also be given a pro comparison that illustrates the best-and-worst-case scenario for each, depending on their development in the league.Enjoy the comparisons and let me know what you think of their professional prospects in the comments section!Begin Slideshow Kentucky Basketball: 5 Reasons Anthony Bennett Wouldn't Have Fit Anyway
Top 10 high school basketball recruit Anthony Bennett may have dashed some hopes of Kentucky Wildcats fans when he chose to sign with the UNLV Rebels.The dreams of Bennett playing with Kentucky's other top recruits like Nerlens Noel are over, but it may not be as bad as it seems.Bennett, number seven in ESPN's Top 100 high school recruits, may end up fulfilling the potential he holds, but him playing at Kentucky may have only deterred it.Let's take a look at five reasons why the Wildcats are better off without Bennett.Begin Slideshow Kentucky negotiates with Duke, schedules future series with Baylor, North Carolina (The Dagger: College Basketball Blog)
Just because Indiana opted not to play Kentucky at off-campus venues for the foreseeable future doesn't mean the Wildcats can't find other high-profile opponents willing to schedule a game at a neutral site.
John Calipari announced a handful of big-event games for upcoming seasons Wednesday including a multi-year series with Duke, a resumption of the North Carolina rivalry and a matchup in Cowboys Stadium against Baylor.
"When we schedule, I want to create experiences, not just games," Calipari wrote on his website. "The thing about Kentucky basketball is it's passed down from father to son. I want to schedule events that grandfathers and grandsons will be talking about 25 years from now. That's part of what Kentucky basketball is about; part of what has made this place so unique."
There's still no excuse for Kentucky and Indiana not reaching a compromise to preserve one of college basketball's most significant regional rivalries, but nobody can accuse the Wildcats of ducking top competition.
Following a one-year hiatus next season in the series with North Carolina, Kentucky will once again play the Tar Heels and Louisville either at home or on the road in alternating years. The next two seasons, the Wildcats will also participate in the Champions Classic, next season against Duke in Atlanta and the following season against Michigan State in Chicago.
The potential series against Duke is welcome news considering the two schools have built a rivalry based on their five NCAA tournament matchups yet have only faced one another sporadically in the regular season. | | | | |
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