Don’t think Louisville vs. Kentucky is a hard-core rivalry? Check out the Final Four smack-talking t-shirts after the jump. This is NASTY. Brutal, like Duke vs. North Carolina.
Kentucky vs. Louisville: rivalry t-shirt wars (photos)
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Ashley Judd in Kentucky Wildcats Gear (Picture Gallery)
April 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
She’s the most famous die-hard fan in all of college basketball. Ashley Judd loves her Kentucky Wildcats, it’s even part of her self-description on her Twitter page. And check out her tweet for the big game today.
If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true? I’m dreaming today of a fab win for KENTUCKY! UConn tough. GO CATS!
That last part sounds very Pat Fitzgerald of Northwestern like! Haha! This is a huge weekend for her, as she has a just released book to promote too.
USAToday on my book, All That is Bitter & Sweet. Out Tuesday! http://usat.ly/fWlEcC
As always, click on the pic for a much, larger full version
Follow paulmbanksKentucky vs. Kansas: NCAA Tournament National Championship drinking game
April 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Welcome to the fourth annual NCAA Tournament Championship Drinking Game, one of our favorite articles every year here at The Sports Bank. If you missed our first three editions, you can check out the 2009 Michigan State vs. North Carolina version, the 2010 Butler vs. Duke edition, or last year’s UConn vs. Butler.
Even if you do not have a rooting interest in tonight’s game between the Kentucky Wildcats and Kansas Jayhawks; invite some friends over, buy a heck of a lot of booze, follow our drinking rules, and it will be as much fun as if your own team was playing.
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March 31, 2012 By 3 Comments
It’s a bluegrass, bourbon, basketball battle. The biggest meeting ever between the two rivals from the state of Colonel Sanders’ fried chicken and his secret recipe. It’s the Kentucky Wildcats vs. the Louisville Cardinals at the Final Four in New Orleans. Sounds very Southern (and drunk) to me.
Let’s get to it!
Follow paulmbanksWhat happened to Kentucky Wildcats superfan Ashley Judd’s face?
March 14, 2012 By 1 Comment
Is this a botched surgery? Sure, she looks younger and less gaunt, but she also looks like The Joker. She now has Renee Zellweger type “smush face.” I’m speaking of course about Kentucky Wildcats superfan Ashley Judd.
After the jump, see her before/after picture.
Follow paulmbanksCollege Football 77 in 77: #64 Kentucky Wildcats
July 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I know what you’re saying, yet another team that falls into one of three categories: a.) good, although obscure mid-major program,
b.) BcS conference team that has fallen from grace
c.) college basketball powerhouse where college football is an overlooked afterthought. Obviously the Kentucky Wildcats fall into that final category. (But they are an official TSB team now)
But that’s what the 70s, 60s, and 50s are in the 77 in 77s. So when will we get some “real” teams, and programs lots and lots of people care about?
Probably in about 15 days or so; which is good because I’d like to move closer to the higher page view generating teams as quickly as possible. Cuz it also means we’re getting ever so closer to the season kicking off.
Kentucky is underrated though; they’ve made five straight bowls and Joker Phillips could guide them to a sixth this year. And he has the coolest coaches name of all
Follow paulmbanksKentucky Wildcats Set New Record for NBA Draft Representation
June 24, 2011 By 3 Comments
For the first since the NBA Draft was reduced from seven rounds to two rounds in 1988, only one college basketball program, the Kentucky Wildcats, has seen at least four players get selected in back-to-back drafts. Last year five Cats got picked (John Wall Washington Wizards, DeMarcus Cousins Sacramento Kings, Patrick Patterson Houston Rockets, Eric Bledsoe Oklahoma City Thunder, and Daniel Orton Orlando Magic).
Four former Wildcats were selected in the 2011 NBA Draft last night, including top-10 picks Enes Kanter and Brandon Knight who were selected third and eighth overall. Kanter was selected No. 3 overall by the Utah Jazz, followed by Knight at No. 8 by the Detroit Pistons. Josh Harrellson went 45th to the New Orleans Hornets. DeAndre Liggins ended the night for Kentucky when he was selected 53rd by the Orlando Magic.
2011 marks the second straight year that Kentucky had multiple players selected in the top 10 of the draft, and at least four overall. In the modern era, and I define the “modern era” as post-1987 when the draft was reduced from seven rounds to two, this is the first time it has happened; at any school. Only one school has four taken in three consecutive years (Long Beach State, 72-74, but that was back when the draft was 10 rounds long).
By Paul M. Banks
Follow paulmbanksBig East/SEC Challenge Unveiled: Kentucky-St. John’s, DePaul-Ole Miss
May 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The DePaul college basketball team learned its opponent for the 2011 BIG EAST/SEC Challenge today: the Mississippi Rebels at Allstate Arena. The three-day event features 12 games in December between BIG EAST and SEC programs.
Here’s the full schedule:
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Mich St., Duke, KU and UK to Tip Off Next Season By Playing Each Other
December 8, 2010 By 1 Comment
What’s most interesting about the sport of college basketball is how much it’s Q Rating as a sport increases during this season. No other sport has such a wide level of disinterest in the beginning (and again that really bothers me. I’m not advocating this apathy- just pointing it out) but then creates such a tremendous buzz at the end. Everyone loves March Madness, but not everyone cares in November, although they should.
There have been more key non-conference games in November and December lately, but now it’s going to be ramped up a notch, and right from the very the start.
Four of the game’s marquee programs: Michigan State Spartans (overlook last night’s bad loss at Syracuse, they’ll be alright come March), the Duke Blue Devils, Kentucky Wildcats and Kansas Jayhawks have all agreed to get together and get the season started right and tight.
By Paul M. Banks
College Hoops 101 (11-22-10)
November 22, 2010 By 7 Comments
Happy Feast Week!
If you are unfamiliar with College Hoops 101, it is a weekly feature here at The Sports Bank that runs every Monday and breaks down everything you need to know going on in the world of college hoops. I will look back at the previous week and peak ahead to some of the key match-ups in the next seven days. In case you missed it, be sure to check out my first Field of 68 (aka Bracketology) in which I predict the NCAA Tournament brackets.
By: David Kay
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99 in 99:#11 Kentucky Wildcats
November 8, 2010 By 14 Comments
John Calipari was hired away from Memphis to put the Kentucky Wildcats back on the national map. In just one season in Lexington, Calipari has done that that and so much more.
The Wildcats lose eight players from last year’s team including five that were selected in the first round of the NBA Draft. In what seems like it will become a yearly cycle at UK, the program brings in the top recruiting class in the country and could very easily be a Final Four contender.
The Sports Bank’s “99 in 99”ranks the 72 power conference college basketball teams and top 27 mid-major programs. Click here if you missed teams #13-#99.
By: David Kay
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College Basketball Officially Begins Tonight
October 15, 2010 By 5 Comments
345 NCAA Division I men’s basketball teams begin their journey on the road they hope will culminate at the Final Four, as official practices will be conducted all across the country this weekend.
Many teams and their fans will gather across the country in arenas late Friday night to celebrate Midnight Madness, the annual celebration that marks the start to the season. Practices are permitted to begin after 5 p.m. Friday.
A Snoop Dogg Concert accompanies Northwestern’s event this evening.
ESPNU will televise its Midnight Madness special featuring extensive whip-around coverage from top college basketball programs around the nation Friday at 9 p.m. ET. Coverage will focus on several men’s programs including defending national champion Duke, as well as Kentucky, Memphis, Gonzaga, Kansas State and St. John’s. (No doubt because former ESPN personality Steve Lavin is now leading the program).
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