Students at Lexington’s Jessie Clark Middle School have been encouraged to wear a UK shirt and “Jorts” in honor of Josh Harrellson on Friday

Andrew Dansby of the Houston Chronicle gives a genealogy of jean shorts as they relate to Josh Harrellson

Terrence Jones and Brandon Knight have flipped roles and Josh Harrellson has turned into a legitimate weapon on both ends of the court

CBS' Clark Kellogg is amazed at the progress UK has made since December

Rekalin Sims's charge of trafficking drugs within a thousand yards of a school has been sent to a grand jury

Ed Davender was sentenced on Thursday to 12 months in jail on a misdemeanor theft charge related to a NCAA Final Four ticket scam

ESPN senior recruiting analyst Dave Telep says Anthony Davis stated a powerful case to be considered as the top prospect in the class of 2011

Kyle Wiltjer will become a major weapon for UK one day

Calipari, who always has been an aggressive, incredible personality, has developed into a terrific basketball coach

UK is likely to stick to its man-to-man defense against UConn

Calipari is making sure this week's stay remains a business trip

Still undecided about his college future, Kentucky fans are banking on Trevor Lacey becoming the Wildcats' next freshman phenom

All of Calipari's relationships are calculated and meant to give him an edge over his peers, especially when it comes to recruiting

The v-word that should be used with Calipari this week isn't "vacated,"- it's "vindicated"

Calipari's academic bonus is among the highest in Division I men's basketball

An NBA scout tells Rick Bozich that if Josh Harrellson performs well on the NBA psychological tests after the season, he could creep into the bottom of the first round

Darius Miller's family will have tickets behind the UK bench for Saturday's game, and Monday's if the Cats make it to the championship game

Anthony Davis is a shot-blocking machine

UK commitment Anthony Davis is as long, if not longer, than UNC big man John Henson and Kyle Wiltjer is as good of shooter as Austin Rivers

Brandon Knight is Kentucky's worst shooter, by percentage, in the NCAA Tournament

UK has an open practice Friday at 1 p.m. in Houston

Josh Harrellson has traveled a wandering path to college basketball's grandest stage

Daniel Orton predicts a UK-Butler National Championship game

The end of Kanter’s season became the beginning of Josh Harrellson’s renaissance

Josh Harrellson is a guy few of these schools would even recruit today- nobody's out there looking for the next Josh Harrellson

Josh Harrellson and DeAndre Liggins are partial to the nickname "The Payback Cats"

Marquis Teague is looking forward to playing with Kyle Wiltjer and they already starting to get some chemistry

Enes Kanter doesn't plan to go to Houston, but will be there in the form of Josh Harrellson's play

With Kentucky set to play Connecticut and Walker in the Final Four on Saturday, DeAndre Liggins toned down the rhetoric

A Final Four at Kentucky that remains on the record books would help erase some of the stain that remains from Calipari's time at UMass and Memphis

The work ethic that drives Brandon Knight to excel on the court is the same one that pushes him to excellence in the classroom

Calipari gets the most out of his players’ talent

UK took off from Blue Grass Airport shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday

John Clay says UK should be favored to win the National Championship

Terrence Jones' willingness to restrain his shot has allowed his teammates to blossom and made Kentucky a better all-around team

Kansas has offered a scholarships to Trevor Lacey

Enes Kanter deserves some of the credit for UK's run to the Final Four

No one back in Broward County is surprised by anything Brandon Knight does, not in the classroom and certainly not on the court

This year's UK team accomplished something John Wall and Co. couldn’t: add a Final Four banner to the rafters at Rupp Arena

Calipari has been savaged, yet UConn coach Jim Calhoun has been cloaked

Brandon Knight, DeAndre Liggins, and Josh Harrellson are named to the East All-Regional Team at the 2011 NCAA Tournament

The NBA plans to investigate New Jersey Nets part-owner Jay-Z for the rapper’s visit to Kentucky’s locker room after the Wildcats clinched a Final Four berth in Newark

La Salle big man Aaric Murray is considering UK

Kentucky is heading to its first Final Four in 13 years behind Josh Harrellson's energetic play and leadership

Calipari hopes for some relative peace and quiet in Houston

Calipari has a blessed feeling heading into this weekend’s Final Four in Houston

Tayshaun Prince is impressed with Calipari's coaching performance this year

Michael Gilchrist is ready to embark on a repeat Final Four campaign

Calipari remains adamant that he's done nothing wrong, but knows there is a faction that remains unsatisfied with his answers

UK commitment Kyle Wiltjer won the three-point shootout at the Powerade JamFest on Monday

Regardless of the expenditures, devoted UK fans will find a way to Houston to cheer on the Cats on April 2

Mayor Jim Gray appointed a 42-member group Monday to study the future of Rupp Arena and Lexington Center

UK’s rematch with UCONN highlights two teams that share a seemingly mirror image of a season-long journey

Tom Sorensen of the Charlotte Observer says Calipari is the best coach in college basketball

Neither Connecticut nor Kentucky gave their fans many reasons to book flights to Houston as late as late February

Anthony Davis will finish No. 1 or 2 in ESPN's final Class of 2011 rankings

Calipari doesn’t have this coaching thing all figured out, but he’s at least glad he solved his personnel puzzle

Jon Hood says this team's nickname should be "Forever Young"

Calipari has already restored the shine to a program that's slowly slipped off its perch over the past decade

Guys who think Calipari can't coach know as much about college basketball as they do cricket

Those who dismiss him as nothing but an accomplished pitchman and recruiter ignore the whole truth: The man can coach both ends of the floor

DeAndre Liggins has learned to keep a cooler head, part of the maturity process that comes with being a leader

Brandon Knight was nearly speechless minutes after Kentucky earned its first ticket to the Final Four in 13 years

Sunday night wasn't about Calipari the rogue recruiter as much as it was about Calipari the brilliant motivator and strategist

UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. and Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart promised that this appearance on college basketball's grandest stage will not be vacated

For the Wildcats, the road back will not be completed until they have an eighth banner to hang

Next year, Kentucky will feature arguably the nation’s best recruiting class and might start the preseason as the No. 1 team

On Sunday, Brandon Knight emphatically ensured his own UK basketball legacy will always stand in its own bright light

Part of what will fire up the Wildcats’ Final Four game against UConn on Saturday can be traced back a couple of decades

This young Wildcat group is busting through expectations and Calipari is shattering previous images of his coaching acumen

Kentucky is the new favorite to win the NCAA Tournament in Las Vegas, at 8-5

Calipari's legacy still lies largely ahead of him

UK players met J-Z after their victory over UNC

This is the perfect amalgamation of what Kentuckians love -- a team with a boatload of talent and even more, onions

On Sunday evening, Calipari and his team delivered the final rebuttal: The Wildcats might be the best team in the country

UK beats UNC 76-69 and reaches the Final Four for the first time since 1998

UNC-UK is as close a matchup as the tournament has seen

Given the distance this Kentucky team has traveled, we may be witnessing the best work of Calipari's long and distinguished career

Josh Harrellson is hoping to inflict his own punishment today against the Tar Heels

Calipari hears from John Wall regularly

Trevor Lacey is still considered a long-shot to play for the Tide

Learning has been one thing DeAndre Liggins has had to do repeatedly during his three years in Lexington

There will be plenty of opportunities to watch Michael Gilchrist, Marquis Teague, Anthony Davis and Kyle Wiltjer show off their talents on television over the next few weeks

What Kentucky and North Carolina have done in a span of three months is no less remarkable and every bit as unlikely

In the NCAA Tournament, Josh Harrellson has become a difficult matchup

Out of the bathroom stall, the equipment truck, Twitter jail and the doghouse, Josh Harrellson is a step away from the Final Four

In a profession overrun with self-declared and mostly pseudo educators, Calipari hardly pretends to teach anything more elementary than Ball Movement 101 and a few life lessons on how to scuffle for survival in a predatory world

Calipari is sticking with his minimalist philosophy in hopes that it keeps the players mellow going up against one of their toughest challenges

UK is a gritty, hardworking team that believes

When a game hangs in the balance, Brandon Knight makes Calipari’s late-game play-calling easy

Brandon Knight has become one of the most cold-blooded clutch shooters in Kentucky's NCAA history

Darius Miller knows how much advancing to the Final Four would mean to the Bluegrass

UNC's John Henson anticipates Terrence Jones attacking him more often on Sunday rather than settling for the jump shot like he did in December

The key to the Wildcats playing for a spot in the Final Four on Sunday is defense

DeAndre Liggins has grown up at Kentucky

Calipari's real coaching strength has never been on better display than this year

DeAndre Liggins has blossomed into one of the premier defenders in college basketball, in part because he spent last season wearing the white jersey of the second team in practice

If Brandon Knight makes more big shots, Kentucky's season won't end on Sunday

Josh Harrellson claims he has made jorts so popular in Lexington he even got Darius Miller to start wearing them

Kentucky could have had a 'two-seed' if the NCAA Selection committee had not gone out to lunch

Josh Harrellson is the ever-increasing center of attention of UK

Calipari wasn't alone in lauding Harrellson after the OSU game

Doron Lamb says he will be at UK next season and is not worried about leaving

Terrence Jones isn’t looking to make a better showing this time against North Carolina and is more interested in extending the season for at least one more week

In an NCAA tournament full of upsets and newcomers, Kentucky and North Carolina have turned the East region into an oasis of sanity

If the past two weeks are any indication of things to come, UK's “Revenge Tour” will be a success and will conclude in Houston next weekend

Perhaps Kentucky has found the combination to success

In the season’s biggest game for Kentucky to date, Josh Harrellson did not just perform- he stole the spotlight from the big man whose star had previously shined the brightest

When UNC's John Henson, Tyler Zeller, and Harrison Barnes are all clicking- the Tar Heels look close to unbeatable

Calipari is back within an eyelash of taking his third college basketball team to the Final Four

Ohio State coach Thad Matta says Josh Harrellson is the most underrated player in college basketball

Telling Brandon Knight not to shoot, especially at winning time, is like telling Tom Brady not to pass or Derek Jeter not to field

Josh Harrellson had two seasons to practice for the OSU game

No UK player was more responsible for the OSU victory than DeAndre Liggins

Outside of Anthony Davis, Kyle Wiltjer will be the most skilled big man in the 2011 McDonald's All-American game

Calipari and Thad Matta have talked of starting a regular-season series, but they're not close to an agreement

As Tubby Smith negotiates an extension, Minnesota looks as if it could be headed for another offseason of instability

UK beats Ohio State 62-60- Josh Harrellson scored 17 points and had 10 rebounds

Terrence Jones must play well to extend a Kentucky career that could end with the next loss

Dave D 'Alessandro of the Newark Star-Ledger says Calipari is mostly a salesman who traffics in optimism, and nobody does it better

Jared Sullinger says Kentucky is the Mecca of college basketball

Whenever Kentucky wins a national championship, the Yankees follow suit with a World Series title seven months later

These Buckeyes are no more intimidated facing these Wildcats in an NCAA East Regional semifinal tonight than they would be facing Minnesota

If he continues to lift the Wildcats toward a national championship, jean shorts may become a staple in Lexington, and Josh Harrellson may very well become one of the most unlikely basketball legends to play at one of the elite programs in the nation

Other than the Ohio River, there isn’t much that separates these two schools when it comes to their chosen obsessions — Wildcats basketball for UK, and Buckeyes football for Ohio State

The chairman of the UK board of trustees says the board will create a committee to examine the governance and management of the UK Athletic Association at its meeting Tuesday

After more than 20 years of climbing the ladder in the coaching profession, Calipari is where he wants to be

Jared Sullinger won't bring any intimidation to a streaking UK team

2011 recruit Braeden Anderson says Kentucky and Arizona are on his list for official visits

Calipari likes the way his team is playing heading into tonight’s contest and is anxious to see how his team handles playing on a much bigger stage

Brandon Knight says the offense is the one thing the Wildcats have relied on consistently this year

Bloomberg News says UK spent more on recruiting last year than any public university in the six biggest conferences in college sports

Like major banks in the United States and Rome for over a millennium, Kentucky basketball is probably too big to fail

Friday looks like Kentucky's biggest underdog moment since the Wildcats played Duke in Philadelphia in 1992

With all this talent between UK and Ohio State, you can expect a hard-fought game

Buckeyes coach Thad Matta says Brandon Knight has OSU's attention

Ohio State is strong enough that UK might take away its outside game and the Buckeyes still find another way to prevail

Doron Lamb has been streaky

The Wildcats revel in their past, they just don’t live in it

Calipari was close to taking the North Carolina State job in 2006

Calipari says his time with the New Jersey Nets made him a better leader

Calipari is a superb motivator, who is sure to use the underdog role to his advantage

Although Terrence Jones has been outstanding, Kentucky has been very thin in the low post

Kentucky and Ohio State bring different beliefs about game preparation into their meeting on Friday

If the Wildcats give Josh Harrellson a shot to guard Jared Sullinger one-on-one, that may be exactly what the freshman wants

Calipari moved the team to a hotel in Livingston, N.J., which is about 12 miles from Newark

Jeff Sheppard's son wakes up and wants to wear his Brandon Knight jersey

Billy Gillispie will make $800,000 each year of his five-year deal at Texas Tech, according to his contract that was released Thursday

The Boston Globe says the odds are slim of Brandon Knight returning to college next year

University of Minnesota athletics director Joel Maturi said that no school has contacted him seeking permission to talk with Tubby Smith

While there might be something magical about the way Josh Harrellson is finishing his college career, he reached this point through old-fashioned hard work and determination

The media says there is a big difference between Calipari and Thad Matta, but sometimes they don't get it

Calipari knows that there is little chance his youthful team can sneak up on the Buckeyes

Besides divine intervention, Josh Harrellson is spurred by the thought that any game could be his last

Calipari says Eloy Vargas probably deserves more playing time than he's been receiving

There can be a bit of a stigma when you’re an upperclassman playing for Calipari

The Rockets have to like what they have seen from Patrick Patterson

Calipari wants what every major college basketball coach in the nation wants -- Jamesville-DeWitt 6-foot-10, 280-pound junior center Dajuan Coleman

Terrence Jones and Brandon Knight are among the hottest candidates for this June’s NBA Draft

Kentucky and Syracuse are showing DaJuan Coleman the most love of late

Calipari never doubted his team would mature, but this one just took a little longer than usual

Both Thad Matta and Calipari are likely to have at least one freshman with an NBA decision to make at the end of the season and it's a spot in which both coaches are comfortable

Both Darrin Horn and Donnie Tyndall see reasons to believe that UK can advance into the East Regional final against either North Carolina or Marquette

Morehead State Coach Donnie Tyndall says Brandon Knight is UK's best player and is the one edge he'd give the Wildcats over OSU

Patrick Patterson deserves some credit for the Houston Rockets' defensive success

Good things happen for the Wildcats when Brandon Knight is assertive

Calipari is an investor in Orange Leaf Yogurt on Man O'War Boulevard

Though Ohio State is the top seed and favorite, Calipari said UK is unlikely to sneak up on the Buckeyes

Brandon Knight just might be the best freshman in UK basketball history

UK commitment Marquis Teague was named Marion County Player of the Year

If the Cats could play Carolina within two in Chapel Hill, they would have a strong shot on a neutral floor to initiate Roy Williams' traditional, season-ending cry

Say goodbye to Tennessee as a Southeastern Conference East Division contender for the next four or five years

DeAndre Liggins credits Calipari as the inspiration for making defense not only his role at UK but also his ticket to a basketball future

Doron Lamb's mom says there would have to be something concrete for her son to even contemplate putting his name in the NBA Draft

Doron Lamb's parents are thrilled he will be playing closer to home on Friday night

Tubby Smith will lend his expertise to the television coverage of the Kentucky-Ohio State game on the Big Ten Network Wednesday and Thursday

Kentucky is a 5.5-point underdog, but Josh Harrellson already has beaten much longer odds

UK-Ohio State is a game worthy of April that will be played in March

The financial stagnation of SEC basketball in the NCAA Tournament will be the central reason to finally get rid of divisions

Jeff Goodman from FoxSports.com says Bruce Pearl’s tenure at Tennessee is over

UK commitment Kyle Wiltjer will represent his home nation Canada at the 2011 Nike Hoop Summit

Calipari has flown up to watch 2012 five star recruit Dajuan Coleman twice in the last 30 days and has offered a scholarship

Darius Miller is ready for the next step

DeMarcus Cousins was ejected from the game against Minnesota on Sunday after shoving the Timberwolves' Martell Webster

Five star 2012 center Dajuan Coleman won a state championship today in front of Calipari, who flew to Glens Falls from Tampa

UK's transformation has even stretched to toughness – something Calipari has implored his team to develop throughout the year

UK has become a gritty group headed to a gritty place — Newark, N.J. — for an NCAA Sweet 16 game against either Ohio State or George Mason on Friday

Brandon Knight's big day on Saturday was more than a matter of divine intervention

Josh Harrellson is proving a pair of jean shorts really can make it in an Armani world of college basketball

Brandon Knight, Terrence Jones, and Doron Lamb will face tough decisions about their futures at the end of the season

Darius Miller says Assistant Coach Orlando Antigua told him not to be afraid to shoot on Saturday

Few will pick Calipari's young team to bounce the Buckeyes, but UK wouldn't want it any other way

Billy Gillispie confirmed he has agreed to a five-year deal to become the next coach at Texas Tech in a text message to ESPN.com's Andy Katz

Texas Tech is expected to announce later today that Billy Gillispie as the university’s next men’s basketball coach and will receive a five year contract

Josh Harrellson's performance on Saturday will just endear him further to Kentuckians

ESPN's Dick Vitale says fans in Big Blue country down in Lexington have a lot to smile about

ESPN's Dick Vitale says fans in Big Blue country down in Lexington have a lot to smile about

Doron Lamb continues to play with the pain from an ankle sprained a week ago

Josh Harrellson has become UK's most indispensable player

Kentucky enjoyed a home-court advantage in the St. Pete Times Forum

Josh Harrellson still communicates with Billy Gillispie

Josh Harrellson has emerged as Kentucky's steadiest player in the tournament

Brandon Knight says DeAndre Liggins’ intensity inspires his teammates

Brandon Knight exudes the type of attitude that prevents him from ever getting caught up in the emotion of any situation

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Brandon Knight is playing as well as he has been this week

UK beats West Virginia 71-63- Brandon Knight scores a career-high 30 points

If UK beats West Virginia, next week's trip to Newark will be a bit of a homecoming for Calipari

Calipari and Bob Huggins' players love them, and both coaches are great with media, funny and filled with stories, and they have 1,197 coaching wins between them and specialize in building something out of nothing

The starting lineups for UK and West Virginia from last year's game came to be worth more than $11 million

For much of his three-season career at UK, Josh Harrellson has been more folk hero than plain hero

Kentucky's recent string of success has coincided with a rise in play from Darius Miller, who arguably is playing the best of his career

Patrick Patterson had 18 points and a career-high 12 rebounds in a victory against the Boston Celtics on Friday night

Although revenge against the Mountaineers would be sweet, DeAndre Liggins isn’t fixated on the revenge factor

Calipari told Brandon Knight that his learning curve is sharper than Derrick Rose, Tyreke Evans and John Wall