Brandon Knight's mother Tonya did not appreciate Bobby Knight stereotyping one-and-done players

Josh Harrellson would not be surprised if DeAndre Liggins and Terrence Jones returned to play for Kentucky next season

Shabbaz Muhammad says his recruiting is pretty heavy right now and he's been talking to a lot of coaches from Kansas, Duke, North Carolina, Arizona, and UCLA

Dick Vitale says both Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones will probably be in the top seven picks of the NBA Draft

Calipari is spending Friday touring several eastern Kentucky coal mines

Former UK player Darnell Dodson was dismissed from the team on Thursday after his arrest for allegedly stealing items from a Southern Mississippi fraternity house

Calipari's hope that the Kentucky Combine will give his players more to think about from the feedback they'll be getting

Eric Bledsoe acknowledged the devastation left by a series of severe tornadoes that have recently ravaged his home state of Alabama

A well-connected Caribbean source tells SNY.tv that Calipari would be crazy to coach the Dominican Republic National Team this summer because they don’t have any money and have a horrible reputation in the region

Starting next year, college basketball players must decide before mid-April whether to pull out of the NBA draft and retain their college eligibility

Calipari is inviting every NBA team to the Joe Craft Center to come and see his players work out

Brandon Knight says he is 50-50 on returning to UK

Kentucky continues to prove it's indeed a basketball state

Josh Harrellson is making draft preparations of his own and has been squeezing in workouts between studying for final exams

Walking away from Rupp Arena in these hard financial times is a hard decision to make

ESPN's Andy Katz says Vanderbilt will challenge Kentucky for the SEC East title next year

Another place 2012 five star recruit Ricardo Ledo says he definitely wants to see this time around is Kentucky

Ryan Harrow hasn't made any decisions on where he's going, but says UGA is on his list

Ryan Harrow either did or did not visit UK’s campus, depending on conflicting reports from the Cats Pause and KSR

Rick Pitino is backing out of an agreement to coach the Puerto Rico national team in preparation for the 2011 pre-Olympic qualifying tournament because of scheduling conflicts

Good NBA chatter on UK prospects from Rick Bozich

John Clay says don't expect UK's tempted trio of Brandon Knight, Terrence Jones and DeAndre Liggins to return to Lexington, but there will be plenty of others who regain their senses

UK's incoming freshman evoke limitless anticipation for next year

Former UK basketball players Josh Harrellson and Jeff Sheppard will be at The Towne Mall from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon to sign autographs

UK led college basketball in average attendance for the sixth straight year and the 15th time in the last 16 years

Calipari is mulling a chance to coach the Dominican Republic national team

Ryan Harrow will be granted a release to transfer to any school that's not an ACC school and is expected to be among the most sought after Division I transfers

The University of Kentucky's fight song is the subject of a fight in federal court

2013 recruit Chris Walker has UK in his top five

Time will tell whether Billy Gillispie's hiring in Lubbock is worth this considerable risk

UK can’t let little brother have a basketball stadium bigger and better- that’s just unacceptable

Former UK basketball student manager Frank Vogel has a pretty good real-life version of his favorite movie going

UK's Final Four run caught the attention of 2012 recruit Perry Ellis

The Wildcats are no longer in the mix for God's Gift Achiuwa

Basketball became Eric Bledsoe's ticket to a better life

Luke Winn from SI.com says Terrence Jones is a long shot to return and DeAndre Liggins is a mid-to-late second-round draft pick as of now

Rajon Rondo is on his way to becoming Louisville's most accomplished professional athlete of his generation

The Kansas vs. Kentucky game will occur at Madison Square Garden on November 15

Kentucky basketball fans, school administrators and Lexington, Ky., city officials have a serious case of arena envy

2012 recruit Shabazz Muhammad will have the Arizona Wildcats among his finalists when he decides in November

Physically, Daniel Orton says his knee is sound, but he won't go full bore until sometime this summer

Calipari is selective as he evaluates prospects, and he's not finished recruiting for next season

If May 9 dawns with Jones, Liggins and Knight still in Kentucky's stable, the Nos. 1 and 2 preseason picks are all but set

UK has never been on Bob Knight’s Christmas card list throughout the years

Given his likely lottery-pick status, Brandon Knight is probably done at the collegiate level

Bob Knight called Billy Reed for help in writing his apology to UK

2013 recruit Derek Willis of Bullitt East High School verbally commits to Purdue

Fan base is something Trevor Lacey is considering when making his college decision

Trevor Lacey admitted that he was impressed by the love that he felt from UK fans on Friday night

Bobby Knight had no business singling out Calipari’s program, but should have indicated that the one-and-done system as a whole is hurting college basketball

Tonya Knight says it would take something unexpected for her son to withdraw from the draft and Brandon getting his degree is the least of her worries

Larry Vaught believes Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones will remain the draft, while DeAndre Liggins will return to UK

Calipari believes DeAndre Liggins could improve his standing with workouts for NBA personnel during the next few weeks

2011 recruit Braeden Anderson confirms he signed with Kansas because he was never offered a scholarship from Kentucky

Ten to fifteen agents have called Josh Harrellson

God's Gift Achiuwa could get involved with Kentucky

Doron Lamb has developed a special relationship with Kentucky super-fan Mr. Bob Wiggins

Mark Wiedmer of the Chattanooga News-Free Press says if Jones, Knight and Liggins all turn pro, UK won't be much better than last year’s model, which went 2-6 on the road in an average SEC before jelling late

2011 recruit Trevor Lacey says he would have to work his butt off to get a starting position at UK

Gregg Doyel from CBSSports.com says even if Knight, Jones, and Liggins stay in the draft, UK will still be one of the top two teams next year

On the day the Kentucky underclassmen announced they were making the next move toward departing, the North Carolina underclassmen were featured in the Wall Street Journal

Trevor Lacey credited Eric Bledsoe and DeMarcus Cousins for getting Calipari to check him out

Having so many one and done players at UK is a big selling point for Calipari

Trevor Lacey has been told to expect that UK fans who attend the game Friday night at the KFC Yum! Center will be eager to convince him what decision to make

Terrence Jones' High School coach Pat Strickland believes he will remain in the NBA Draft if he projects as a lottery pick

Trevor Lacey will choose between Alabama, Kansas and UK and will visit UK in May

Although Brandon Knight has left the option of returning to Kentucky open by not hiring an agent, it would be a surprise if he withdraws his name before the May 8 deadline

It's hard to imagine Terrence Jones and Brandon Knight turning down their shots at the lottery given the talent arriving at Kentucky

Jeff Goodman from FoxSports.com says it's unlikely that Brandon Knight will withdraw his name from the NBA Draft

Rick Bozich of the Louisville Courier-Journal would be surprised if any of the three UK players withdraw their names from the NBA Draft

DeAndre Liggins has impressed some NBA scouts with his exceptional defensive ability- at least one franchise compared his pro potential to that of Memphis Grizzlies forward Tony Allen

Gary Parrish from CBSSports.com says the national controversy involving UK and Bob Knight seems just as dumb as the remark that sparked it

Bob Knight now has gone from bully to bully pulpit and lately, it's not the truth he is beating people with

Calipari is polarizing- numerous media types really don't like him

Doron Lamb hopes to help lead the Wildcats back to the Final Four when he returns next season

Terrence Jones, Brandon Knight and DeAndre Liggins will enter this year’s NBA Draft, but none has hired an agent nor announced plans to do so

The Hoops Report says Enes Kanter has been working out at ATTACK Athletics in Chicago for the past few weeks and has signed with an agent

Trevor Lacey will make an official visit to Kansas on April 29-30 or the following weekend

The fact that Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones have not yet announced their intentions indicates that one, if not both, could return to UK

The toughest team to project for next season is Kentucky

DeMarcus Cousins and Patrick Patterson will be in Louisville on May 6 for the legendary Barnstable Brown Derby Eve Gala

ESPN analyst Bob Knight apologized Tuesday after making erroneous statements over the weekend about the academic record of UK's basketball team

Billy Gillispie is already getting it done in Lubbock

The mother of Brandon Knight says her son has made the decision of whether to return to UK for his sophomore season or enter this year’s NBA Draft

Doron Lamb has decided to return to UK and won't declare for the NBA Draft

The ball is in ESPN's court regarding Bobby Knight's comments- it's their integrity that's on the line here

Bob Knight owes Kentucky an apology or his false accusations against last year's Wildcats

Bob Knight has no idea what he's talking about and owes an apology to Calipari, Patrick Patterson, John Wall, and to the rest of UK's starting five

Gary Parrish from CBSSports.com says only Terrence Jones and/or Brandon Knight returning to UK will keep UNC from being No. 1 in the preseason polls and even then it'll be debatable

USA Today says it's hard to believe that Bob Knight would speak without researching such a hot topic, but somebody has gotten the facts wrong

One NBA scout tells Rick Bozich he believes the decisions by Harrison Barnes, Jared Sullinger and Perry Jones make it more likely Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones depart UK

Former UK player Allen Edwards is leaving Western Kentucky to accept a position as the second assistant under new University of Wyoming head coach Larry Shyatt

Brandon Knight didn't mind taking his books to the NCAA Tournament

Josh Harrellson thinks the NCAA ruled Enes Kanter ineligible because he wanted to play at UK

Calipari is not giving up on Stacey Poole

Calipari was scheduled to make a visit to Trevor Lacey on Friday but it was pushed back until Sunday

John Wall will work closely with Washington Wizards assistant Sam Cassell in the offseason

To play the dribble-drive offense Calipari expects, Marquis Teague is going to have to get better at involving teammates

Calipari thinks Darius Miller could hurt his NBA chances if he makes himself available for the draft this spring and doesn't show a consistently assertive approach

Anthony Davis won MVP honors for the West in the Jordan Brand Classic

Rupp Arena has not a single luxury box or a "Bourbon Room," yet players named Anthony Davis, Marquis Teague, Michael Gilchrist and Kyle Wiltjer have signed on to play there next season

Marquis Teague and Anthony Davis are rooming together for a third time on the all-star circuit, creating a friendship that has them planning to room together at UK

The real key to making UK season's special is the return of Brandon Knight

Michael Gilchrist was named the 2010-2011 ESPN Rise Mr. Basketball USA

2012 five star recruit Andre Drummond hasn't been in contact with any school for some time

DeMarcus Cousins overall was pleased with the results of his first year in the NBA

UK's 2011 commitments talk about the NBA decisions of Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones all the time

UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart says the arena used by the UK men's basketball team must be the gold standard

Marquis Teague thinks playing with Brandon Knight would benefit him

Anthony Davis needs to add weight to be a more effective inside presence at UK next year

John Wall doesn't plan to tolerate losing much longer- he's already guaranteed the playoffs for next season

Kentucky might face its stiffest challenge next season from Kevin Stallings and Vanderbilt

Calipari believes it's only a matter of time before he leads UK to its eighth national championship

Kansas coach Bill Self, Auburn's Tony Barbee, UConn's Jim Calhoun, and N.C. State new coach Mark Gottfried are all scheduled to make a visit to check in on Trevor Lacey next week

The Birmingham News says insiders predict Trevor Lacey will sign with UK or Alabama

Calipari predicts all of his assistant coaches will be back next year

Josh Harrellson is in the process of hiring an agent

With the third straight top recruiting class, Calipari and Kentucky have a rabid fan base with incredible expectations wanting more in 2011-2012

DeMarcus Cousins will throw out the first pitch before the Sacramento River Cats' Thursday night game against the Las Vegas 51s

Calipari has urged Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones to enter the draft but not sign with an agent

Calipari, in an interview this afternoon with 27 Newsfirst said he may tell DeAndre Liggins to put his name up for the NBA draft

Calipari expects Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones to announce their NBA-or-college decisions by the end of this week

Calipari does not expect Doron Lamb to declare himself draft eligible

Calipari laughed at rumors of him being a candidate to coach the New York Knicks

God's Gift Achiuwa will visit Washington this coming weekend and St. John’s over Easter weekend

Trevor Lacey's interest in Kansas is serious

Thom Loverro of ESPN 980 ways the Washington Wizards job remains a possibility for Calipari

Michael Gilchrist and Trevor Lacey were named first-team All-Americans by MaxPreps.com on Tuesday

Calipari might end up having a busy summer, as he's been asked by a couple of different countries to coach their teams

Calipari is expected to be in Huntsville on Friday to meet with Trevor Lacey

Josh Harrellson says UK fan support helps ease the pain of the Final Four loss to UConn

Josh Harrellson is glad his father got to see him play on a regular basis and witnessed UK make a Final Four run

Washington, D.C. knows a little something about first rounders from Kentucky

Jeff Goodman from FoxSports.com says all signs point to Richard Pitino returning to Louisville and re-joining his father as the associate head coach

DeMarcus Cousins scored a career high 30 points Monday night against Oklahoma City

Shabazz Muhammad will eventually take a recruiting trip to UNLV

John Pelphrey will re-join the University of Florida Gators as an assistant under Billy Donovan

Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones could use at least one more year of nurturing in the collegiate ranks

The Birmingham News says Trevor Lacey may be waiting until after the NBA deadline to decide to see if Brandon Knight is going or staying

If dealing with a few NBA rumors is the price to pay for Calipari being UK's coach, it's a bargain

DeAndre Liggins' fiance says the plan is for him to be back at UK unless something unexpected happens

Calipari sn't being as aggressive about pushing his freshman potentially out the door because of a potential NBA lockout that many believe is going to happen

Calipari talked to Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones last week after returning from the Final Four and will meet with them again today or tomorrow

Illinois junior college center Stan Simpson has committed to the Memphis over UK, UConn, and Kansas

Former UK player Steve Masiello will be the next head coach at Manhattan

Final Four coaches Calipari, Jim Calhoun, Brad Stevens and Shaka Smart will convene on May 20 at the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota for the Jimmy V Foundation gala

Tonya Knight says Brandon's academic career will be a consideration in deciding whether to enter this year's NBA Draft

The possibility of Enes Kanter's stock falling because of the year-long absence from actual game play has materialized

2011 UK recruit Braeden Anderson verbally commits to Kansas over UK and others

Eric Bledsoe will be suspended for one game for violating a team rule

Former UK players Steve Masiello and Scott Padgett are being considered for the vacant head coaching position at Manhattan

John Wall thinks Calipari will spurn the NBA stay at Kentucky

Larry Vaught believes Brandon Knight will leave for the NBA because the opportunity is just too good to pass up

John Wall doesn't plan on making losing a habit

Enes Kanter is still taking classes at UK and will finish his semester before going to Chicago to prepare for the NBA Draft with trainer Tim Grover

Calipari stopped by Memphis Friday night to check on Tyreke Evans and DeMarcus Cousins

Terrence Jones donned some specs while attending Keeneland's opening day of its 75th anniversary

UK commitment Kykle Wiltjer has been busy since returning from spring break in Hawaii

Gary Parrish from CBSSports.com says he has no doubt Calipari would leave UK this year for the opportunity to coach Amare Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony with the Knicks

D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera was voted the Indianapolis-area high school basketball player of the year over UK commitment Marquis Teague

Kelly Dwyer of Yahoo! Sports says the idea of Calipari being an NBA GM is ridiculous

The New Jersey Nets have been fined $50,000 for minority owner Jay-Z's presence in the Kentucky locker room after the Wildcats clinched a Final Four berth

Calipari offered scholarships to 2013 recruits Nerlens Noel and Wayne Selden

New York Knicks owner James Dolan may have eyes for Calipari to run the front office and coach

The team that finally cut down the nets at Reliant Stadium was a poor man’s version of UK

Doron Lamb's father Calvin says his son is leaning toward playing for UK again next season

There might not be a place where John Wall has such resounding support as Indianapolis

Enes Kanter will throw out the first pitch of the UK baseball series opener vs. Auburn on Friday

Trevor Lacey told The Huntsville Times on Thursday he does not have a final two schools on his short list despite various reports that he's down to Alabama and Kentucky

While Trevor Lacey’s commitment is unknown, he says UK is one of five schools he's publicly considering

One of Calipari’s friends at the Final Four hinted that the collegiate governing body clearly doesn’t like Calipari and doesn’t like the fact that he’s coaching at one of the premier college basketball programs in the country

Being a freshman for Calipari and Kentucky is a badge of honor

Jerry Meyer from Rivals.com believes at least two and maybe three freshmen could crack the starting lineup for UK next season even in the unlikely event that all of the Wildcats' current underclassmen return to school

Andy Katz ranks UK as the 2011-2012 preseason number one team

Scott Howard-Cooper from NBA.com says Brandon Knight is project to be picked somewhere between No. 5 and No. 10

2011 recruit Kevin Ware tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution UK is interested and expects Brandon Knight to leave for the NBA

Jeff Goodman from FoxSports.com ranks UK number one in his 2011-2012 Top 25

Calipari will be compensated far better than the two coaches who were in Monday night’s NCAA championship game

This season Kentucky crashed onto college basketball's grandest stage- UK basketball resides again at the corner of fame and fortune

Billy Gillispie's contract with Texas Tech is significantly lower than the Memorandum of Understanding he signed with Kentucky in April 2007

Josh Harrellson has withdrawn from the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament because of flu-like symptoms

In addition to his recruiting prowess, Calipari does deserve credit for getting the young talent to play at a championship level so quickly

You figure the odds are with Calipari if he keeps on knocking on the door especially since he is the expert coach when it comes to quickly reloading and quickly developing great young talent

It sounds as if DeAndre Liggins is at least going to think about leaving UK

Calipari knows he might have to start all over next fall, but the drop shouldn't be too steep

Calipari will discuss each players' option with them soon since they only have about two weeks to declare for the draft if they plan to leave UK early

There is no reason to believe Calipari is leaving UK any time soon

Calipari will have $325,000 in bonuses to ease the sting of his team's Final Four loss to the University of Connecticut on Saturday night

Kentucky basketball's coaching staff is paid the most out of 53 public schools in the six biggest conferences

DeAndre Liggins says he'll meet with his family and discuss the possibility of turning pro

Kemba Walker congratulated DeAndre Liggins on his defense after yesterday's game

Eric Crawford of the Louisville Courier-Journal says it's safe to assume Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones will leave for the NBA

UK's plane today landed solidly to cheers of a small but enthusiastic crowd of 75

Tubby Smith was approached by Missouri about its vacant coaching job during the Final Four, but Smith said he was happy at Minnesota and declined to pursue the job

The Wildcats have no reason to leave Texas without a sense of pride

The Jorts joyride was a blast

Josh Harrellson has barged his way onto the radar of NBA scouts

Regardless of whether Terrence Jones (doubtful), Knight (doubtful), Lamb (debatable) and Liggins (probable) return, Calipari will have a team built to compete for another national championship next year

Missed free throws again were a major factor in a loss for a Calipari-coached team

DeAndre Liggins isn't thinking about the NBA right now- he's just thinking about his academics

Brandon Knight’s buzzer-beating three was meaningless this time around

Saturday inside Reliant Stadium the precious present was disappointing, but the future looks fine

Tubby Smith says UK has the right coach and are back where they want to be

UK missed more shots on Saturday night than they have missed in the entire NCAA tournament

Mitch Lawrence of the New York Daily News says Calipari wants back in the NBA

UConn beats UK 56-55- Brandon Knight scores 17 points

The “Payback Cats” hope to earn their nickname and show that improvement tonight

Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin says Calipari is the most underrated defensive coach in the country

Brandon Knight is not your typical one-and-done star, but certainly a young man with a great future

The Cats are back in the Final Four- for The Kingdom of the Blue, at long last, all is again right in the world

Calipari has slip-slided his way to respect, and also to his third Final Four—or his first—depending on how you look at it

Although the Cats are the center of attention nationally this week, Darius Miller says the team’s approach remains the same

DeAndre Liggins knows he can't shut down Walker, but he'll give it a shot

Chuck Hayes and Patrick Patterson intend to attend today's game against Connecticut at Reliant Stadium

Missouri athletic director Mike Alden has interest in Tubby Smith

Though Calipari says he'd like to coach Brandon Knight for the next 15 years, his play in the tournament means the coach likely will have to catch his games on TV next winter

Brandon Knight looks like he'd rather be at the library during most interviews, but he perks up when learning Manute Bol was a Dinka, a tribe he studied in his anthropology class

The one-and-done specter overshadows Calipari's abilities as a coach

If Brandon Knight and Terrence Jones go pro later this spring, they'll be replaced by another talented group led by forward Anthony Davis Marquis Teague, both of whom could have very short stays in Lexington

Glynn Cyprien is one of eight candidates for the head coaching job at Lamar and also being wooed by Billy Gillispie

Terrence Jones' high school coach Pat Strickland says if he’s projected as a lottery pick, he'll likely enter the NBA Draft

The Huskies shot 57.7 percent in Maui, but no UK opponent has shot better than 46.2 percent in the past dozen games

2012 small forward Daniel Dingle is considering UK

The latest indications are that Trevor Lacey will choose between Alabama and Auburn

A nearly two-year FOXSports.com investigation revealed that Bilal Batley broke NCAA rules by making repeated impermissible telephone calls while at Kentucky to recruits such as DeMarcus Cousins and their parents

Being around basketball has helped Calipari's father Vince grieve

Calipari was hired on April Fool’s Day and his impact on the program has been no joking matter

Josh Harrellson is shooting 71.4 percent from the field during the NCAA Tournament

Calipari is the opposite of Billy Gillispie- he’s an encourager and tries to build players up from day one

Bozeman, Montana mayor Jeff Krauss, a die-hard UK basketball fan, has canceled a Bozeman City Commission meeting scheduled for Monday so he won't miss the game should the Wildcats advance

Jerry Meyer from Rivals.com says Anthony Davis is by a significant margin the top post prospect in 2011

DeAndre Liggins is expected to be the primary defender on Kemba Walker

Eric Bledsoe remains an ardent supporter of Kentucky basketball

Winning is the only adjective that actually fits Calipari

ESPN senior recruiting analyst Dave Telep says UK is a recruiting super power right now that is one step away from planetary dominance and that is basically a national championship

Former CBS college basketball analyst Billy Packer tells Bloomberg News Calipari is to blame for allowing New Jeresy Nets part-owner and rapper Jay-Z to visit his players in their locker room March 27

Terrence Jones is not shooting as much and Kentucky is a better team

It took time, but Calipari and DeAndre Liggins have learned to trust each other

Shelvin Mack calls Darius Miller one of his best friends and describes their relationship as “brother-to-brother”

Brandon Knight sticks hard to Theodore Roosevelt's motto of speak softly and carry a big stick

If the clock is winding down against UConn in Saturday's Final Four matchup, there is no doubt Brandon Knight will be trying to get an open look

Calipari arranged for two former mentors to be at the Final Four- he never forgets his roots

The once dysfunctional Wildcats has been dubbed "The Redeem Team" for its ability to exact revenge

NBA Executives tell SI.com Terrence Jones is in the 9-14 range of the 1st round of the NBA Draft and Brandon Knight is expected to go in the late lottery

Wildcat fans are beginning to paint Houston blue

Calipari will earn a bonus larger than the annual base salary of VCU coach Shaka Smart with the Wildcats’ eighth national title

DeAndre Liggins says there were too many egos with last season's UK freshman- everybody wanted to be the man

Playing Kentucky would be a highlight, but Shelvin Mack said his priorities are straight

Terrence Jones never balked at being asked to score less

DeAndre Liggins grew into, if not the best defender in the nation, certainly the best on Kentucky's first Final Four team in 13 years

DeAndre Liggins’ inspiration is tattooed on his right arm for all to see -- an image of his late older brother

The Wildcats seem to have a knack for hitting the important three

Kemba Walker and Brandon Knight’s matchup should be a duel, but it may not determine the outcome of this game

As Calipari says, before the winning had to come the retooling

UConn didn't get the full scope of Kentucky's ability four months ago at the Maui Invitational