Posted on June 16, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Today marks the closing of the final Kentucky Greats decade as the 1990’s poll has closed. We will now be putting each of the winning teams into a bracket and then you will be voting on one matchup per week.
The first game is between the 1979 Wildcats and the 1946 Cats. The winner of this [...]
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Posted on June 1, 2008 by ibleedblue040
As I have stated before I am a huge Boston Celtics fan so I have taken it upon myself to do a preview of this historic series for you. I will go position by position and determine which player and team has the advantage at each position and then determine the winner of the series [...]
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Posted on May 20, 2008 by ibleedblue040
With yet again another kind of dry period in the UK recruiting world I want to write another game preview for the NBA Playoffs. Like I have said many times before I am a very big Boston Celtics fan so I am going to write a series preview for the Eastern Conference Finals between the [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Kentucky fans held a collective breath tonight as team after team was announced to participate in the NCAA Tournament, and finally, after two and a half brackets were announced Kentucky got their name called to play against Marquette in Anaheim, CA for the first round game of the tournament. Kentucky is trying to revenge an Elite [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Kentucky has improved their tournament chances drastically in the last few weeks with winning 11 of 15 games, including games against Tennessee and Vanderbilt, but sunday afternoon will be the icing on the tournament cake if they can win at home against the Florida Gators. Florida beat Kentucky in Gainesville in overtime 81-70 in January. [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Just two days ago this game had the makings of becoming yet another classic between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Tennessee Volunteers, but after the news that was released yesterday about Patrick Patterson being out for the remainder of the season the circumstances changed, as did the NCAA hopes that UK was starting to gain. [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Kentucky takes on the Mississippi Rebels tomorrow in Rupp Arena in what is sure to be one of the biggest crowds in the arena’s history as each game UK plays begins to get more and more important to solidifying their tournament chances. I am sure that Kentucky understands the importance of winning this game because they [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2008 by ibleedblue040
The last time these two teams squared off Kentucky had just a 9-9 record and came into Athens already battered and bruised, when they left they might as well been a walking hospital. On Feburary 2nd UK traveled to Athens, Georgia and got a very much needed road victory over a club that had been [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2008 by ibleedblue040
Coming off the worst loss in almost 20 years the Kentucky Wildcats basketball team travels to Baton Rouge to play LSU tomorrow at 1:00 pm. Kentucky fans everywhere have now shifted their belief from “We can make the tournament!” to “Well we might make the NIT!”. The truth is that if UK were to win [...]
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Posted on February 10, 2008 by ibleedblue040
TOURNAMENT CHANCES??
Words can not express how important Tuesday’s 9:00 pm game at Vanderbilt is for the University of Kentucky basketball team, OK maybe they can but Tuesday’s game is vitally important for UK and might set them on a path to the NCAA tournament if they can pull off another upset. Kentucky needs to finish [...]
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