Daniel Orton to Kentucky?

According to a wall post on a newly formed Facebook group entitled “Daniel Orton - Make the University of Kentucky your home & become a legend!”. This poster promises to be the real Daniel Orton and some other people have claimed it is him because his network or something, I do not know. Anyway this [...]

Web Wednesday - 6/25/08

Rumor Mill
- The first rumor from this past week that I have heard is that DeAndre Liggins, a member of Kentucky’s 2008 recruiting class, has reached eligibility status after recieving his much anticipated test scores. A message board poster made the claim that he knows someone in the UK admitance field and they said he [...]

UK in the mix with Stephenson??

News broke a few minutes ago that top 10 2009 guard Lance Stephenson has added Kentucky to his final three schools and taken USC off in the midst of their recruiting scandal involving star guard OJ Mayo. Stephenson, according to his AAU coach, is down to Kansas, UCLA, and now Kentucky. All of this talk [...]

Web Wednesday - 6/11/08

Recruiting Trail
- The UK Elite Camp took place over the weekend in Lexington and supposedely there were some great turn outs. Daniel Orton, the #1 center in the country, showed up surprisingly even though he is hurt. This has to help UK’s chances that he decided to show up and probably gets the tour of [...]

Web Wednesday - 5/28/08

Recruiting Trail
- There has been a bit of confusion over where UK stands with the #1 player in the nation, John Wall. There have been a couple articles, one of which Wall was interviewed, that have some UK fans thinking they have a good shot to land the #1 prospect in the nation. The first [...]

Web Wednesday - 5/21/08

Recruiting Trail
- As many of you know by now, UK is likely to sign 6′8″ PF Mathew Pilgrim, formerly of Hampton University, for next season. Pilgrim would enroll at UK next school year but would have to sit out a year because of a transfer rule. Pilgrim has been compared to Joey Dorsey because of [...]

UKmadness 2009 rankings, #25

Starting this saturday we here at UKmadness will be counting down our top 25 prospects from the 2009 class. We will be doing this every Saturday and Tuesday.

#25, Hollis Thompson - Committed to Georgetown
Positives
- Hollis Thompson is a good shooter, especially for his size. Thompson is 6′6″, 180 lbs. and plays the two-guard and small [...]

Hood moves up in new Rivals rankings, not much luck for Vilarino

* Jon Hood, the latest commit for the UK wildcats out of the 2009 class, moved up to #19 in the latest recruiting rankings by Rivals.com. Hood had previously been #39 but many people suspected him to jump up the rankings after lead recruiting analyst Jerry Meyer said that Hood was looking like he belonged [...]

Web Wednesday: 5/14/08

Recruiting Trail
* According to Kentuckyink.com, Christian Watford visited the UK campus this past weekend after he played in the Adidas May Classic on the Indiana campus. Watford is considered a four-star prospect and the #47 player overall, and is considered a slashing small forward, the type of player that coach Billy Gillispie seems to be [...]

UK targets in Arizona: Update #4, Tournament Wrap

– Michael Avery was far below impressive in the Arizona Cactus Classic (ACC) this weekend. Avery only played in the first four games this weekend and the reason I believe why that is is that he just was not producing. Avery finished the tournament with 4 points and 3 rebounds overall and shot 40% from [...]