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Two former Wildcats picked up one of the state's top honors Thursday night. Rajon Rondo and Brandon Webb were inducted into the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in Louisville, UK Athletics announced. Rondo was an All-SEC performer at Kentucky from 2004 to 2006 be…
Thursday brought national love for two of Kentucky's best, one recruiting miss, and a look ahead to Neyland. Start with the hardware chatter. KSR reports Milan Momcilovic and Clara Strack are National Player of the Year candidates, and UK Athletics confirms S…
The SEC's coaches have now backed up the media on two Wildcats. The league announced the coaches' preseason All-SEC teams Thursday, and Kentucky's Milan Momcilovic and Malachi Moreno both made the list. Momcilovic landed on the Second Team and Moreno was a Th…
BBN, three exhibitions are in the books, and the freshman everybody called a package deal has been Kentucky's best guard this preseason. Mason Williams looks like he's been here for years. Our Take: Mark Pope already trusts Williams when it matters, and the n…
No. 23 Kentucky closed preseason 3-0 the hard way Wednesday night at Rupp Arena, needing a last-second tying basket and a 19-5 overtime period to beat UCF 90-76 in an exhibition final. Alex Wilkins forced overtime. With time expiring and Kentucky trailing aft…
It's game day at Rupp, and a busy Wednesday all around Big Blue Nation. The recruiting news stings a little. On3 reports five-star center Lewis Uvwo committed to Providence, choosing the Friars over Kentucky, Baylor and Cal. A Sea of Blue has it too: Uvwo pic…
Big Blue Nation, this one is confirmed. Lewis Uvwo, the five-star center from Prolific Prep in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, committed to Providence on Wednesday, picking the Friars over Kentucky, Baylor and Cal. He announced live on CBS Sports HQ. A Nation of Bl…
Kentucky senior guard Asia Boone is one of 20 candidates for the 2027 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, which honors the top shooting guard in Division I women's basketball. The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the WBCA announced the preseason watch list Tuesday…
Kentucky women's basketball held its annual media day Tuesday at Memorial Coliseum, with head coach Kenny Brooks previewing a No. 14 preseason AP team that opens the regular season Monday, Nov. 2, at home (6:30 p.m. ET, SECN+). The Cats finished 25-11 last se…
One more tune-up, then it counts. No. 23 Kentucky closes its three-game exhibition slate tonight against UCF at Rupp Arena, tip at 6 p.m. ET. A week from now the Cats open the regular season against Manhattan (Nov. 3), so this is the last chance to work out t…
Bye week Tuesday, and the SEC title talk around Kentucky is only getting louder. A legend is all in. Kentucky Sports Radio says Fran Curci is ready for Kentucky to win the SEC title. When a former Cats coach is saying it out loud, you know this season feels d…
Kentucky fans, pinch yourselves. The Wildcats just finished October without a loss, and according to KSR's Nick Roush, that hasn't happened since 1977. Our Take: This team keeps falling behind and keeps finding a way to win. That isn't luck anymore. That's wh…
Bye week Monday, and Big Blue Nation still has plenty to chew on. First, circle it: Kentucky at Tennessee on Saturday, Nov. 7 is a 6:15 PM ET kick on ESPN, per 247Sports and ESPN's schedule. Our updated what's next page has the rest of the stretch run. The na…
No. 25 Kentucky women's golf finished sixth in the 18-team field at the Landfall Tradition on Sunday at the Country Club of Landfall (Dye Course) in Wilmington, N.C. The Wildcats shot 291 and 293 over the first two rounds to sit in a tie for third, then poste…
If you missed Saturday night at Kroger Field, here's the whole thing in a few minutes. Vanderbilt jumped out first on a 30-yard Brock Taylor field goal, then made it 10-0 when Jared Curtis hit J. Conner for a 3-yard touchdown. Then the Cats went to work. Kenn…
Read that headline again, BBN. After Week 8, Kentucky is No. 1 in the country in strength of record, per ESPN's FPI résumé rankings. Saturday Down South was first to flag it. What does that mean? ESPN's strength of record measures the chance that an average T…
Kentucky men's soccer went on the road Sunday night and played James Madison to a 0-0 draw at Sentara Park in Harrisonburg, Va. Neither side found the net in 90 minutes. JMU outshot Kentucky 11-10 and put 3 shots on frame to UK's 2. The Dukes pushed hard afte…
What a Sunday to be wearing blue. The big one first: Kentucky football is a top-10 team in both major polls, No. 8 in the Coaches and No. 9 in the AP after the 34-17 win over Vanderbilt. Six straight wins and alone atop the SEC. Soak it in. Now the fun stuff.…
Kentucky volleyball played its Pink Match at home in Lexington on Sunday and got swept by No. 19 Texas A&M, 3-0, in a rematch of last December's national championship match, live on ABC. Every set was close, and Kentucky didn't get one: 25-20, 25-23, 25-21. I…
Kentucky football is a top-10 team again, and now it's official in both major polls. The Wildcats moved up four spots to No. 8 in the US LBM Coaches Poll released Sunday, Oct. 25, after Saturday night's 34-17 win over Vanderbilt in Lexington. The AP Top 25 fo…
Kentucky rifle went into Lincoln on Saturday and came out with one of its best wins of the young season, beating No. 5 Nebraska 4722-4719. The Wildcats trailed by two points after smallbore, 2341 to 2339. Air rifle flipped it. Kentucky shot 2383 to Nebraska's…
Vanderbilt is handled. Kentucky beat the Commodores 34-17 at Kroger Field on Saturday night, and our full breakdown is in the BBT final. That's six straight wins, a 7-1 record, a 5-1 mark in SEC play and first place in the SEC, per ESPN's SEC standings. Next…
No. 12 Kentucky beat Vanderbilt 34-17 Saturday night at Kroger Field, scoring 34 of the game's last 41 points after falling behind 10-0, and the defense held the Commodores to 15 rushing yards. Our Take: This was not a clean night, and Vandy owned the first 2…
Halftime at Kroger Field: Kentucky 14, Vanderbilt 10. The Wildcats lead Vanderbilt 14-10 at the break. First-half scoring: - Q1 3:57 (VAN): B. Taylor 30 yd FG GOOD - Q2 9:03 (VAN): Jar. Curtis pass to J. Conner for 3 yds, for a TD (B. Taylor KICK) - Q2 5:04 (…
No. 12 Kentucky has a chance to win its sixth straight game tonight, under the lights at Kroger Field. The Cats (6-1 record, 4-1 in the SEC) host Vanderbilt (3-4 record, 0-4 in the SEC) at 7:30 p.m. ET on SEC Network. Kentucky has won five in a row since the…
Kentucky gets its leading rusher back tonight but will be without a starting receiver and a tight end against Vanderbilt. This is where both teams stand on Friday night's SEC availability report. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. ET on SEC Network, and the SEC's final gam…
No. 12 Kentucky (6-1 record, 4-1 in the SEC) and Vanderbilt (3-4 record, 0-4 in the SEC) are headed in opposite directions. The Cats have won five straight, two of them in overtime. The Commodores have lost four in a row. Here's how the two teams compare goin…
Two exhibitions down, one to go, and Friday's 76-65 win over No. 19 Texas Tech gave us the clearest look yet at what Mark Pope's third Kentucky team actually is. Not the final product. But the outline is there, and most of it looks good. The rotation: nine de…
Kentucky women's basketball opens 2026-27 at No. 14, its best preseason ranking under Kenny Brooks, with Clara Strack as its centerpiece. Before this team, though, the program's biggest star in the modern era was Rhyne Howard. She went from Cleveland, Tenness…
For most of its history, Kentucky baseball had a geography problem. It was the SEC's northernmost school until Missouri joined in 2013, and it played in a league with LSU, Florida, Mississippi State and South Carolina. It was hard to build a winner. In 2024,…
Kentucky is 6-1 in Will Stein's first season, and the end of the schedule still has the game that matters most to many fans: Louisville and the Governor's Cup. This year it comes with an extra storyline, because Stein is a Louisville native who played quarter…
Kentucky and Tennessee have been rivals since their first football game in 1893, and the series has carried over to almost every sport the schools play. On the basketball court, Kentucky has usually controlled it. But Tennessee has handed the Cats some of the…
Ask someone from Kentucky which game matters most in a regular season, and the answer is rarely an SEC opponent. It's Louisville. The schools share a state and a fan base, and both programs are among the most successful in college basketball history. Yet for…
Kentucky has sent more players to the NBA than almost anyone, and over the last two decades it has turned top recruits into lottery picks. Still, the top of the program's career scoring list hasn't changed since 1970. It belongs to Dan Issel, a center from Ba…
When fans list Kentucky's championship programs, basketball comes first and volleyball now comes up quickly. Rifle deserves a spot on that list too. The Wildcats have won four NCAA team championships, and they compete for another nearly every year. Here's a p…
Craig Skinner's new contract, which UK Athletics announced Oct. 20, keeps him in Lexington through 2031. It's a good moment to look back at what he has built. Before Skinner, Kentucky volleyball was a program that sometimes reached the NCAA tournament. Today…
Mark Pope added two staff members on Oct. 13, and they couldn't be more different. One is a familiar face to anyone who remembers 1992. The other brings a recruiting network that runs across Africa. UK Athletics says both hires are pending standard background…
Every Kentucky offense has a signature. This season's starts with one number: 48.7. That was Milan Momcilovic's 3-point percentage at Iowa State last season, the best in the country. He also made 136 threes, the most in Iowa State history for a single season.…
Kentucky has won eight NCAA championships, second only to UCLA, and it's the only school where five different coaches have cut down the nets. Ranking them is a fun argument with no wrong answers, so here's ours. We weigh how dominant each team was, how hard t…
When Kentucky tips off at home this season, it does so inside a building about to hit a half-century. Rupp Arena opened on Nov. 27, 1976, so this season includes its 50th birthday. Plenty of college arenas are older, and a few are fancier. Few have hosted mor…
Mark Pope's first two Kentucky teams were built on the fly. Year three is the first time he has had a full offseason to shape the roster the way he wants, and the result is a team that opens at No. 23 in the preseason AP poll with two preseason All-SEC player…
Kenny Brooks has spent two seasons rebuilding Kentucky women's basketball. In year three, the outside world has caught up. The Wildcats open 2026-27 at No. 14 in the preseason AP Top 25, the program's highest preseason ranking of the Brooks era. Here's what t…
Former Kentucky coach Tubby Smith is officially a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith was enshrined Thursday night with the Class of 2026 at the College Basketball Experience in Kansas City, alongside Jay Wright, Ted Owens, Danny…
Kentucky's women's soccer team handled Ole Miss 4-0 Friday night at the Wendell & Vickie Bell Soccer Complex in Lexington. The SEC match kicked off at 7:30 PM ET. The Cats did all their damage before the break. They led 4-0 at halftime, with goals from Kendal…
Final from Rupp Arena: Kentucky 76, Texas Tech 65. Scoring summary: Score via Kentucky Athletics (official stats feed).
Kentucky's men picked up a big win Friday in Bloomington. The UK men beat Southern California 199-100 at Indiana's Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center, per UK Athletics and USC Athletics. It was a split day for the Cats. Host Indiana won both of its duals w…
Mark Pope and Rick Pitino might be running it back, and on a stage college basketball has never used. Kentucky and St. John's are in advanced discussions on a two-year series that would open at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York in November 2027, with a return g…
POSTGAME: KENTUCKY 76, NO. 19 TEXAS TECH 65 No. 23 Kentucky beat No. 19 Texas Tech 76-65 at Rupp Arena on Friday night and moved to 2-0 in exhibition play. Five Cats finished in double figures: Milan Momcilovic and Malachi Moreno scored 15 each, freshman Maso…
Not the news BBN wanted the day before Texas Tech, but there's some good mixed in. Kentucky gave injury updates Thursday, and Kam Williams and Trent Noah are both listed as week-to-week, per 247Sports' Cole Parke. Williams (foot) is progressing nicely and wor…
Kentucky men's soccer lost 2-1 to Coastal Carolina on Wednesday night at the Bell Soccer Complex in Lexington. The Cats controlled the early going, putting up eight shots in the first 25 minutes, but it was 0-0 at the half. Coastal broke through in the 68th m…
BBN, that one stings. Kentucky volleyball had Tennessee right where it wanted them Wednesday night in Knoxville, and then it got away. Per UK Athletics, the Cats (No. 4 in the latest AVCA poll) won the first two sets 25-17 and 25-18, hitting over .450 as a te…
Good news for the Kentucky run game. Will Stein said Wednesday that running back CJ Baxter is back working, and the Cats expect to have him for Saturday night's game against Vanderbilt at Kroger Field. "He's back working, so we'll see how available he is for…
Kentucky head coach Will Stein is on the watch list for the Paul "Bear" Bryant National Coach of the Year Award. UK Athletics announced it Wednesday. The first-year coach has the Wildcats at 6-1 overall and 4-1 in the SEC, tied with Georgia for first place he…
The league's coaches are on the same page as the media about Clara Strack, and they added a second Wildcat to the list. On Wednesday the SEC released its coaches' preseason All-SEC teams for women's basketball, and Strack was a unanimous First Team pick. Forw…
Kentucky's Willie Rodriguez just landed on one of college football's most meaningful lists. The junior tight end was named one of 20 national semifinalists for the Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year on Wednesday, the first major college football award bu…
Ty Bryant is one of the best football scholar-athletes in the country, and now it's official. The National Football Foundation named the Kentucky senior safety a finalist for the 2026 William V. Campbell Trophy on Wednesday, college football's top scholar-ath…
Kenny Darby's first college season just got a national stamp. On3 named the Kentucky receiver to its 2026 Midseason True Freshman All-America Team on Wednesday morning, one of three wideouts on the offense alongside BYU's Legend Glasker and Oregon State's Jes…
New threads for Vanderbilt week. Kentucky is breaking out the grays Saturday night at Kroger Field: gray jerseys and gray pants with blue letters and numbers, plus blue helmets, blue socks and blue cleats, per KSR's Jack Pilgrim. Offensive lineman Coleton Pri…
Around the Blue: Kentucky men's golf finished 12th of 14 teams at the Williams Cup at Eagle Point Golf Club in Wilmington, N.C., closing with a 293 (+5) on Tuesday for a 54-hole total of 889 (+25), per UK Athletics. The final round was the Cats' best of the w…
Will Stein's first year in Lexington just got a national stamp. On3's Chris Low named the Kentucky coach his Midseason Coach of the Year on Tuesday, ahead of UCLA's Bob Chesney, Utah's Morgan Scalley and BYU's Kalani Sitake. The case makes itself. The Cats ar…
Kentucky Women's Soccer goalkeeper Megan Holland has been named SEC Co-Defensive Player of the Week. The team announced it Monday: Holland made 12 saves across the Cats' two road matches last week, a 1-1 draw at No. 21 Auburn on Thursday, where she set a care…
Kentucky Volleyball's setter just got a national spotlight. Kassie O'Brien has been named the AVCA National Player of the Week. Kentucky Volleyball announced the honor Tuesday afternoon, calling it "a Kassie kind of week." It caps a week that ended with a 3-0…
Kentucky women's basketball starts the 2026-27 season at No. 14 in the preseason AP Top 25, released Tuesday. That's the best preseason spot of Kenny Brooks' three years in Lexington; the Wildcats opened at No. 22 in his first season and tied for No. 24 a yea…
Jordan Castell's night in Norman just went national, three times over. On Tuesday the Kentucky safety was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week, the FWAA's Bronko Nagurski National Defensive Player of the Week and the Thorpe Award's Nati…
Craig Skinner is staying put. UK Athletics announced Tuesday that Kentucky's volleyball coach agreed to an extension through 2031, which KSR says adds two years to his old deal. Skinner has been here since 2004: the 2020 national title, nine straight SEC cham…
The SEC has named Kentucky safety Jordan Castell its Defensive Player of the Week. Castell picked off John Mateer twice in the 21-13 win at Oklahoma, first on the Sooners' fake field goal, then on their final drive, returning it 41 yards for a touchdown with…
ESPN's Heather Dinich has 6-1 Kentucky in her projected 12-team College Football Playoff field after Week 7 as the No. 9 seed. It would be the program's first playoff trip. The bracket sends the Cats to No. 8 UCLA in the first round, with No. 1 Miami waiting.…
The first AP Top 25 of the 2026-27 season is out, and Kentucky starts at No. 23. The poll is built on what voters saw over the offseason. For the Cats that means Malachi Moreno coming back after testing the NBA Draft process and Milan Momcilovic arriving from…
Ohio State put a new offer on Kentucky's board this morning. Rivals' Allen Trieu reports the Buckeyes offered Rocky River (Ohio) athlete Tristin Hughes, a four-star already committed to Will Stein's Wildcats. Hughes is coming off a visit to Michigan over the…
Kentucky's win in Norman just paid off twice. The Wildcats are No. 12 in both the AP Top 25 and the AFCA Coaches Poll, released Sunday after Saturday night's 21-13 road win over Oklahoma. In the AP poll, Kentucky jumped three spots from No. 15, per AL.com's M…
The football win in Norman is still sinking in, but two more Kentucky teams are on the road this afternoon, and both games are on SEC Network+. Women's soccer is first. Kentucky (7-5-2, 3-2-2 SEC) plays at Tennessee at 2 p.m. ET at Regal Soccer Stadium in Kno…
Tight end Willie Rodriguez was Kentucky's top fantasy performer in Saturday's 21-13 win at Oklahoma, and Kenny Minchey moved into the season lead. At Oklahoma, Rodriguez caught 5 passes for 38 yards and both of Kentucky's receiving touchdowns, good for 20.8 p…
Norman is in the rearview. Kentucky won 21-13 at Oklahoma behind four interceptions, two by Jordan Castell (including the late pick-six that sealed it) and two by Ty Bryant, per ESPN's box score. That's five straight wins, a 6-1 record, a 4-1 mark in SEC play…
Will Stein just put his name next to a mark Kentucky hasn't seen in more than a century. SEC Network says Stein is the first Kentucky head coach in 100+ years to win 6 of his first 7 games. The previous best start was Alpha Brumage's 5-1 in 1913, per AP. See…
The Kentucky Wildcats are tied for first place in the SEC. Tonight's 21-13 win at Oklahoma moved Kentucky to 4-1 in conference play and 6-1 overall. Georgia came into the night unbeaten, but Auburn beat the Bulldogs 27-24 in Athens on Alex McPherson's 34-yard…
The Kentucky Wildcats went into Norman and beat Oklahoma on Saturday night. Final: Kentucky 21, Oklahoma 13. The Cats scored the game's last 14 points in the fourth quarter, and the defense forced four turnovers. Milestone: SEC Network says Will Stein is the…
Busy Saturday around UK Athletics before the football Cats kick off at Oklahoma tonight. Here's where things stand. Rifle: Kentucky 4718, Akron 4693 at Barker Hall. The Wildcats shot 2341 in smallbore and 2377 in air rifle, per UK Athletics and the official N…
Kentucky swimming and diving came about as close as you can get Saturday morning in Atlanta. South Carolina won the third-place meet at The Dual Meet Tournament 393-390 at Georgia Tech's McAuley Aquatic Center, per UK Athletics and South Carolina Athletics. T…
Former Kentucky star Otega Oweh won't make his NBA debut this season. The Oklahoma City Thunder announced that Oweh had successful surgery on Oct. 14 to repair a ruptured right Achilles tendon. According to the team, Dr. Martin O'Malley performed the procedur…
No. 15 Kentucky walked into Norman with a 5-1 record and a chance to make a real statement on the road. Here's the game-day report as it stood before kickoff, followed by how the matchup we flagged actually played out. THE SETUP The Cats, 3-1 in the SEC, visi…
Missed Friday night at Rupp? Here's the official highlight reel from Kentucky's 69-49 exhibition win over Travis Ford's Little Rock Trojans, the first look at Mark Pope's year-three Cats. Milan Momcilovic was the show, with a game-high 16 points, 4 of 7 from…
Kentucky's 69-49 exhibition win over Little Rock came with a catch, and the catch is Trent Noah. After the game, Mark Pope acknowledged that the junior from Harlan County is still working back from a hamstring injury. KSR's Jack Pilgrim reported that Noah rec…
Kentucky linebacker Alex Afari Jr. is eligible again. On Friday, Jefferson Circuit Judge Brian Edwards granted a new temporary injunction in Wells v. NCAA, restoring 2026-27 eligibility for the 38 Class of 2022 athletes in the case. The list includes Afari pl…
Busy Friday around UK Athletics while the hoops and volleyball crowds were celebrating. Here's every result. Baseball (fall exhibition): Kentucky 11, Indiana 7 in 12 innings in Bloomington. It's the second extra-inning fall game in a row for the Bat Cats afte…
Basketball is back at Rupp Arena. The first look at Mark Pope's third Kentucky team ended in a 69-49 win over Travis Ford's Little Rock Trojans on Friday night. It was an exhibition, so it doesn't count on either record, but it was the first time nine Wildcat…
Kentucky volleyball went on the road and beat Oklahoma 3-1 on Friday night at McCasland Field House in Norman. The Cats took the first two sets 25-21 and 25-22. Oklahoma pushed back and stole the third 27-25, but Kentucky closed it out with a 25-16 fourth set…
Cliff Hagan, one of the most important figures in the history of Kentucky athletics, has died. UK Athletics announced that Hagan died Thursday, Oct. 15, at the age of 94. He was a national champion at Kentucky, a Naismith Hall of Famer, an NBA champion and, f…
Put this one in the Kentucky volleyball record book. Brooklyn DeLeye is now the program's all-time leader in aces. On Oct. 16 at Oklahoma, she served her 120th career ace, passing Eleanor Beavin's mark of 119. Kentucky Volleyball's post summed it up in two wo…
Friday night, and Norman is less than 24 hours away. First thing BBN wants to know: KSR has more clarity on CJ Baxter's injury ahead of the game. He was listed questionable on Thursday's report, so read the latest before you set your expectations for the run…
Kentucky Track & Field / Cross Country posted men's 8k results from the Pre-National Invitational on Friday. Per Kentucky Track's post on X, the Cats finished 23rd as a team with 630 points. Top finisher Ed Bird placed 5th in 23:21.0.
Kentucky Track & Field / Cross Country posted women's 6k results from the Pre-National Invitational on Friday. Per Kentucky Track's post on X, the Cats finished 10th as a team with 380 points. Top finisher Ann Lemirisho placed 3rd in 19:16.8. The program also…
Around the Blue: Kentucky women's soccer battled No. 21 Auburn to a 1-1 draw, per UK Athletics. A road point against a ranked SEC side is the kind of result that keeps a season trending the right way. Full recap and box details are on the UK Athletics story l…
Kentucky has spent the last two Saturdays doing something most programs never do once: winning 35-34 in overtime. First it was South Carolina on the road, then No. 10 LSU at Kroger Field, a win that sent fans onto the field and the Cats back into the AP Top 2…
Thursday on the road to Norman, and the headlines are stacking. CJ Baxter is listed questionable for Oklahoma — first time he's been on the report all season. Depth behind him is the conversation in BBN right now. From the other sideline: Brent Venables says…
Kentucky Football spotlighted center Coleton Price on Thursday after a pair of midseason honors. Per Kentucky Football's post on X, Price was added to The Rimington Trophy midseason watch list, which honors the nation's best center, and named to Sports Illust…
BBN, that's some respect from the other sideline. Oklahoma head coach Brent Venables says Kentucky has the best offensive line the Sooners have faced this season, per Kentucky Sports Radio. It lands one day after the Kentucky offensive line was named to the J…
BBN, the Wednesday SEC availability report is out — and the headline for Kentucky is running back CJ Baxter listed QUESTIONABLE for Saturday night at Oklahoma. It's the first time Baxter has appeared on the report this season, per 247Sports and On3. Baxter ha…
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Wednesday in the Bluegrass, and the board keeps moving our way. Kellan Hall is the new No. 1 overall prospect in the 2028 class, and Kentucky keeps picking up predictions on the in-state star. That is the kind of national noise that follows a big October. Hoo…
Kentucky Football highlighted the Big Blue Wall on Wednesday after the Wildcats' offensive line earned a midseason honor. Per Kentucky Football's post on X, the Kentucky offensive line was named to the midseason honor roll for the Joe Moore Award, which recog…
The SEC media picked Kentucky basketball seventh in the league this week. Mark Pope's answer at SEC Tipoff in Birmingham was the best thing a Kentucky coach has said all month. Our Take: Pope is right to brush off the poll, and he picked the perfect example.…
UK Sports Video just dropped the official condensed reel of Kentucky's overtime win over No. 10 LSU — the whole night packed into less than five minutes. The scoreboard you already know: Kentucky 35, LSU 34 in OT at Kroger Field. The reel runs the big swings…
Kentucky men's basketball made two staff additions official on Tuesday. Alfred Aboya joins as an assistant coach, and former Wildcat John Pelphrey returns as Director of Player Development. Aboya most recently was head coach at NBA Academy Africa and of the C…
The national folks are catching on, BBN. ESPN College Football's Always College Football put the spotlight on Kentucky, and the title says it all: Will Stein has Kentucky rolling. The segment points out that Kentucky has already beaten two Top 10 teams, with…
Tuesday, BBN, and the coach is already guarding the door. Will Stein warned Kentucky against an emotional letdown with Oklahoma up next. After a night like Saturday, that's the right message at the right time. He also isn't done reliving it, and neither are w…
Kentucky linebacker Sam Greene has been named a national Comeback Player of the Week by the College Sports Communicators for his performance in the Wildcats' 35-34 overtime win over LSU. The honor goes to three offensive and three defensive players each week.…
Former Wildcat Masai Russell is up for one of the biggest honors in track and field. Kentucky Athletics announced that Russell is a nominee for World Athletics Women's Athlete of the Year after what it called "an undefeated, world-record-setting season." Fan…
Kentucky Women's Tennis officially has a Wildcat headed to the 2026 NCAA Women's Singles Championship. Julia Zhu earned the spot Tuesday morning, the program announced. Per Kentucky Women's Tennis's post on X, Zhu dominated and "punches her ticket to the NCAA…
Few college football arguments have aged as well as this one. Kentucky and Oklahoma both claim the 1950 national championship, and with the two programs meeting again this season, the debate is back on the table. The Lexington Herald-Leader laid out both case…
No. 4 Kentucky volleyball closed the weekend with a 3-1 win over Ole Miss on Sunday at Memorial Coliseum, and the official UK Sports Video highlight reel is now up. The Cats took the first two sets, dropped the third, then finished it in the fourth (25-14, 25…
Kentucky Women's Tennis has locked down three of the four singles semifinal spots, which guarantees at least one Wildcat will qualify for the 2026 NCAA Women's Singles Championship. Per Kentucky Women's Tennis's post on X, the qualifying spot will be settled…
Kentucky freshman Elise Ernest earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors after Friday's win over No. 25 Texas. Per Kentucky Women's Soccer's post on X, Ernest served up a goal and an assist in the Cats' 3-2 victory, and the conference named her the league's top…
Kentucky Men's Basketball announced preseason recognition for Milan Momcilovic and Malachi Moreno on Monday. Per Kentucky Men's Basketball's post on X, Momcilovic and Moreno were tabbed Preseason All-SEC honorees. The program pointed fans to the full announce…
Monday, and the LSU glow hasn't worn off, BBN. But the man in charge already turned the page: Will Stein says Kentucky is not content after the LSU win. That's exactly what we want to hear. Good thing, because KSR's Monday Huddle frames this week as another s…
The bill came in. Big Blue Nation is happy to pay it. The SEC announced Sunday that Kentucky has been fined $500,000 for fans storming Kroger Field after Saturday night's 35-34 overtime win over LSU, and the money goes straight to LSU. Fans flooded the field…
Match date: Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026 · Memorial Coliseum, Lexington, Ky. No. 4 Kentucky took care of business at home, beating Ole Miss 3-1 (25-14, 25-20, 22-25, 25-19). The Cats jumped out with two straight sets, dropped the third, then closed it out in the fou…
BBN, we're back. Kentucky is No. 15 in the Associated Press Top 25 for Week 7 — back in the poll after dropping out last week, and the highest the Cats have sat since early October 2022. That's the climb after Saturday's 35-34 overtime win over then-No. 10 LS…
The first official ranking move after the LSU stunner is in, BBN: Kentucky is No. 17 in the USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll after Week 6. That's the climb that followed Saturday's 35-34 overtime win over then-No. 10 LSU at Kroger Field — the same night tha…
The SEC's official clip of the overtime sequence is the one BBN will rewind all week: CJ Baxter's touchdown, then Kenny Minchey keeping it himself for the two-point conversion that beat No. 10 LSU 35-34. It was the second straight week Kentucky trailed in ove…
The official UK Sports Video package from Kentucky's 35-34 overtime win over No. 10 LSU is up — the night at Kroger Field, the big runs, and the finish that sent State Street up again. CJ Baxter carried the load with 19 rushes for 123 yards and two touchdowns…
Still buzzing, BBN. Kentucky's 2-point conversion in overtime finished off No. 10 LSU, 35-34, and Sunday kept stacking good news on top of the stunner. The polls moved. Kentucky jumps to No. 15 in the AP Top 25 and climbs to No. 17 in the Coaches Poll after W…
Six games in, CJ Baxter is the top fantasy producer on the Kentucky football roster, and Saturday's overtime win over LSU was his best day yet. Against LSU, Baxter carried 19 times for 123 yards and two touchdowns, including a 77-yard run, for 24.3 points in…
Game date: Friday, Oct. 2, 2026 · Vanderbilt Soccer Complex, Nashville, Tenn. Kentucky women's soccer ran into an unbeaten No. 3 Vanderbilt in Nashville and lost 2-0. Sydney Watts, Vanderbilt's leading scorer, put the Commodores ahead in the 15th minute. Kent…
Tournament dates: Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 5-6, 2026 · Old Waverly Golf Club, West Point, Miss. Kentucky women's golf tied for fourth at The Ally, one of the strongest fields of the fall, after shooting 289 and 292 for a 581 (+5). The final round was canceled bec…
Match date: Sunday, Oct. 4, 2026 · Exactech Arena, Gainesville, Fla. The streak is over. No. 7 Florida beat No. 3 Kentucky in five sets (25-22, 27-29, 21-25, 25-21, 8-15 from UK's side), ending the Cats' run of 29 straight SEC wins. It's UK's first SEC loss s…
Match date: Friday, Oct. 2, 2026 · Neville Arena, Auburn, Ala. No. 3 Kentucky picked up an SEC road win at Auburn, 3-1 (25-16, 25-17, 23-25, 25-17), without star Morgan Gaerte, who missed a second straight match with an eye injury. Brooklyn DeLeye carried the…
Match date: Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026 · Barker Hall, Lexington Perfect. Senior Braden Peiser opened the home season by shooting a 600 in air rifle, and Kentucky beat Murray State 4724-4702 in Barker Hall. Peiser's perfect card came with 53 centers, after a 592…
Match date: Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 · Shooting Sports Education Center, Statesboro, Ga. It doesn't get much closer than this. Kentucky rifle opened the 2026-27 season with a one-point win at Georgia Southern. The teams tied at 2341 in smallbore, so it came dow…
Game date: Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026 · Eugene E. Stone III Stadium, Columbia, S.C. Kentucky men's soccer went into Columbia and pushed No. 9 South Carolina all night, but one goal was the difference. After a weather delay 25 minutes in, Christian Ortiz put the…
Game date: Friday, Oct. 2, 2026 · Bell Soccer Complex, Lexington Finally! Kentucky men's soccer got its first win of 2026, a six-goal thriller over No. 23 Old Dominion at The Bell, 4-2. ODU's Lewis Rourke scored in the fourth minute, but the Cats answered twi…
Game date: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026 · Bill Armstrong Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. For an hour, Kentucky had No. 2 Indiana on the ropes. Agustin Lopez buried a left-footed shot from just inside the box in the 18th minute off a great cross from Eric Onos, and the Ca…
Tournament dates: Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 5-6, 2026 · Lexington Country Club Kentucky men's golf finished fourth of 15 teams at 3-over par at its home event, the Cullan Brown Collegiate. It's the Cats' best team finish so far this fall. UK was tied for second af…
Game date: Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026 · Williams-Brice Stadium, Columbia, S.C. Down 17-0 in Columbia, No. 24 Kentucky pulled off the biggest road comeback in school history and won 35-34 in overtime. South Carolina scored first in overtime and kicked the extra po…
Missed a drive? Want to live it all again? The SEC dropped the condensed game from Kentucky's 35-34 overtime win over No. 10 LSU, every drive that mattered from the first quarter to the walk-off. You get CJ Baxter carrying the load (19 carries, 123 yards, two…
Before the official poll dropped, Brett McMurphy — an AP Top 25 voter — put Kentucky at No. 12 on his Week 6 ballot, right behind 5-0 UCLA and ahead of Utah, and dropped LSU to No. 23. That was one ballot, not the poll. The official Week 7 AP Top 25 is out no…
UK Athletics' postgame notes from the 35-34 overtime win over No. 10 LSU read like a history book. Instead of repeating the whole list, here's a look at the individual performances behind it, and what each one tells us about how this Kentucky team wins. CJ Ba…
Will Stein is 5-1 in his first season at Kentucky. According to UK Athletics' postgame notes after the 35-34 overtime win over No. 10 LSU, that makes him the first Kentucky head coach to start 5-1 in his first year since Alpha Brumage in 1913. It is a great p…
The field was a sea of blue, and Will Stein made sure everybody knew who the night was for. After Kentucky's 35-34 overtime win over No. 10 LSU at Kroger Field, Stein closed his opening statement by pointing past the scoreboard and straight at the stands: "Th…
No time to come down from Kroger Field. After back-to-back 35-34 overtime wins — South Carolina on the road, then No. 10 LSU at home — Kentucky (5-1, 3-1 SEC) hits the road to face Oklahoma next Saturday, Oct. 17. Kickoff: 7:30 PM ET (5:30 PM MT) on SEC Netwo…
Two straight weeks. Two straight overtime wins. Two straight 35-34 finals. The Will Stein era doesn't do boring, and Kentucky (5-1, 3-1 SEC) just walked off No. 10 LSU at Kroger Field. Stein had a message for everybody who picked against the Cats: "I'm in sho…
Final from Kroger Field: Kentucky 35, No. 10 LSU 34 in overtime. The Cats beat a top-10 team on a gamble. After LSU scored on the first possession of overtime, Kentucky answered with a touchdown and went for two instead of kicking to force a second overtime.…
Kentucky 21, LSU 17 at the half, and Kroger Field has plenty to be loud about (ESPN box score). The scoring went back and forth. LSU opened with a 24-yard Starzyk field goal, and CJ Baxter answered with a 3-yard touchdown run. Sam Leavitt hit Z. Grace for a 2…
It's Homecoming in Lexington, and the Cats picked a big one for it. No. 25 Kentucky hosts No. 10 LSU tonight at Kroger Field, with kickoff at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN (UK Athletics preview). The royalty is already crowned. Ali Kashif and Molly Bachman were named the…
No. 4 Kentucky volleyball opened LSU weekend the right way, sweeping the Tigers 3-0 in an SEC match at Historic Memorial Coliseum on Friday night. The official highlight reel from UK Sports Video is above, and it's worth a couple of minutes of your Saturday.…
Kentucky women's soccer pulled off a ranked upset Friday night, beating No. 25 Texas 3-2 at The Bell. UK Athletics called it a last-minute thriller, and the official highlight reel from UK Sports Video above shows how it went down. Wins over ranked teams are…
UK Rifle is hosting Murray State on Saturday at Barker Hall, the official account announced on match day. Smallbore starts at 9 a.m., with air rifle at 11 a.m. and the range open to fans; free breakfast is part of the day. "MATCH DAY!" UK Rifle posted, listin…
Kentucky Women's Soccer completed a comeback Friday night and took down a No. 25 opponent, the official account announced after the win. "UK TAKES DOWN NO. 25!" the team posted. The Cats finished the night celebrating a ranked win. Full details are in the tea…
GAME DAY, BBN. Kentucky hosts LSU at Kroger Field tonight — 7:00 PM ET on ESPN — and the pregame slate is packed. A Sea of Blue's LSU gameday rundown sets the stage for a night in a sea of blue. ESPN asks how LSU's defense could be a different test for Kentuc…
Kentucky men's tennis is rolling in doubles play at ITA Regionals. The official account posted Friday that Wildcat doubles teams have advanced to the round of 32, calling it dubs all around for the Cats. "These doubles teams are advancing to the round of 32 a…
Kentucky Track & Field has put out its 2026-27 indoor season schedule. The official account posted the news Friday with a graphic of the upcoming indoor slate, noting that the indoor campaign is getting closer. "Our 2026-27 indoor season schedule is HERE," UK…
Kentucky Athletics has a new hire in the front office. Mitchell Moorer has been named Executive Associate AD for Player Management, the department announced Friday. Per Kentucky Athletics's post on X, Moorer brings experience from college athletics, pro sport…
Randall Cobb has been named to the 2026 Southeastern Conference Football Legends class, Kentucky Football announced on X on Thursday. The program's post called Cobb "An SEC Legend." Per Kentucky Football's post on X.
LSU weekend is here, Big Blue Nation. Kickoff is tomorrow at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN at Kroger Field — and the whole campus is lining up a packed Saturday around the football game. Start with the official word: UK Athletics dropped the Big Blue Preview for Kentucky…
Welcome to the new Big Blue Times. The idea is simple: one fast page with the Kentucky Wildcats headlines that matter, from football Saturdays to basketball season to the recruiting trail. No clutter and no slideshows. Every headline links straight to the out…