A top Kentucky basketball recruit for coach Mark Pope in the 2025 class has finally scheduled his official visit to Lexington. Acaden Lewis — a 6-foot-2 point guard from Washington, D.C. — will be taking an official visit to Kentucky this weekend, which will include UK’s Big Blue Madness on Friday night. The visit will...
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The 7 Best Parts of Kentucky Basketball’s New Practice Video
Kentucky Basketball is almost here, and on Thursday, we got a glimpse into what’s been happening inside the Joe Craft Center. The program released a seven-minute video chronicling a day at “Banner Camp,” Mark Pope’s version of Hell Week that started when the NCAA’s official practice season began on September 23. I’ve seen plenty of...
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Friday Headlines: Caleb Wilson begins visit with Kentucky Basketball
Kentucky Wildcats head coach Mark Pope and his staff have had quite a bit of early with the 2025 recruiting class. The first-year coach has landed both Jasper Johnson and Malachi Moreno — both Kentucky natives, and each ranked inside the top 25. This weekend, Pope and his staff are hosting Caleb Wilson — a...
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ESPN asks biggest question facing Kentucky ahead of 2024-25 season
Football season is in full swing, but the folks at ESPN are asking the “tough” questions as we gear up for the start of basketball season next month. Staff writer Jeff Borzello released his “Way-Too-Early” Top 25 rankings on Monday, which included Kentucky at No. 23. There were no adjustments from his previous update that...
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British Land lays up rooftop basketball court
British Land has unveiled designs for what will be one of London’s highest basketball courts as part of the wellness and productivity boosting features at its latest office building in Paddington. Working with architect Allies and Morrison British Land has developed the existing consent for 4 Kingdom Street to include the roof-top basketball court, a...
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High School Basketball Star Reveals How NIL Impacted Recruitment to Kentucky Wildcats
In the current landscape of collegiate athletes, NIL reigns supreme. Schools are doing all they can to build up collectives and have as much money as possible to entice recruits to join their programs. That is what many people have assumed the Kentucky Wildcats did to land high school basketball star, Jasper Johnson. A five-star...
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Five-star guard Jasper Johnson commits to Kentucky basketball: What it means for Wildcats
Five-star guard Jasper Johnson — the No. 12 player in the 2025 class — has committed to Kentucky, giving Mark Pope his first five-star commit as the Wildcats’ coach. Johnson picked UK over North Carolina and Alabama. In some ways, Johnson committing to the Cats seemed like a foregone conclusion: His father, Dennis, was a...
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Top basketball recruit Jasper Johnson is ready to commit. Will he pick UK basketball?
This week, a five-star college basketball recruit in the class of 2025 will make his college commitment. And not only is the prospect in question someone that Kentucky basketball fans have been tracking for several years, it’s also a player that Mark Pope and the Wildcats are now expected to land. This week, Jasper Johnson...
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If Not For Kriisa, Common Enemy Alliance of UA/UK Holds Up Well
Photo Credit: Kerr Kriisa/Instagram / Arkansas Athletics In the dog days of summer, with all three major sports in the offseason, nothing gets fans more riled up than perceived disrespect on a preseason rankings list. What better things do we have to do in late August than scream from the rafters that your program should...
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Coaches Reveal Top NIL Programs in College Basketball
CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander recently conducted their annual Candid Coaches series, spending a month surveying over 100 Division I men’s basketball coaches. The goal? To gauge which programs are making the biggest waves with their Name Image Likeness (NIL) situations based on what coaches hear and encounter on the recruiting trail. The...
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Coaches believe Kentucky has a top-five NIL situation in college basketball
We know the Mark Pope hire reenergized Kentucky boosters, NIL support coming in quickly to help the first-year coach build his first roster in Lexington ahead of the 2024-25 season. How does the program’s NIL situation stack up with the rest of college basketball moving forward, though? Opposing college coaches believe UK will continue to...
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Basketball: Plymouth City Patriots withdraw from new season
“Keeping a professional team in Plymouth, for everyone in Devon and Cornwall, has been the main focus of everyone involved with the club and it is with great sadness that we are not able to operate in the new season.” The Patriots were building towards their fourth season, having replaced the Plymouth Raiders in 2021...