Georgia Amoore and the Kentucky Wildcats improved to 14-1 (3-0 SEC) with a 71-55 defeat of Florida on Thursday evening, UK’s fifth straight victory over the Gators in Gainesville.
Mark Pope’s Kentucky basketball team made a move in the Top 25 rankings, and another highly touted opponent awaits the Wildcats this week.
During the Big 12’s nine-year reign, the league placed five teams in the Final Four. Oklahoma lost in the 2016 national semifinals. Kansas lost in the 2018 national semifinals. Texas Tech was the national runner-up to Virginia in the 2019 NCAA Tournament. Baylor won the 2021 national championship. Kansas won the 2022 national championship.
In particular, Alabama attacked a trio of Kentucky guards — Koby Brea, Jaxson Robinson and Travis Perry — and had a great deal of success doing so. Wildcats head coach Mark Pope noticed it, but there wasn't much he or his team could do about it.
Saturday’s college basketball schedule includes 14 games featuring a ranked team in action. Among those games is the Alabama Crimson Tide playing the Kentucky Wildcats.We’ve got what
Bueckers scored points No. and 2,001 on a jumper with 8:05 remaining in the first half. Bueckers reached the mark in her 102nd game, breaking the program record of 108 games by Maya Moore.
On Saturday, the conference then saw three different Top 25 ranked-vs.-ranked matchups take place all across the SEC, headlined by a Top 10 showdown in Lexington. Each of those games also lived up to the hype as well, especially that aforementioned contest inside Rupp Arena on Saturday.
JuJu Watkins scored 22 points as No. 4 Southern California held off a late-game surge from host Indiana to win 73-66 on Sunday afternoon in Bloomington, Ind. Watkins made 8 of 10 free throws and also had six rebounds,
Six-loss Arizona sits at No. 8 in the latest BPI rankings, as ESPN is taking into account the Wildcats’ strength of record and expected point margin moving forward as 12 of the 16 teams in the Big 12 Conference are considered Quad 1 competition.
Paige Bueckers scored 18 points to surpass 2,000 in her career and No. 6 UConn cruised to a 96-36 win over Seton Hall on Sunday.
It’s another SEC basketball battle between two ranked teams. The Kentucky Wildcats, No. 8 in the AP Top 25, play host to the No. 11 Texas A&M Aggies at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Rupp Arena. ESPN2 has the television coverage.