A Sea Of Blue

Photo by Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via The Kentucky Wildcats will face the Indiana Hoosiers in the second game of the Lexington Regional. Happy Saturday, Big Blue Nation! The Wildcats baseball team had a successful debut in their home Regional yesterday as they beat Ball State 4-0 in a game of dominant pitching. They advanced to the winner’s bracket where they will face the Hoosiers of Indiana today at 6:00 PM. IU beat West Virginia 12-6 yesterday to advance. Indiana has a high powered offense and Kentucky will need more of that dominant pitching to secure a...

Frank Becerra Jr./The Journal News / USA TODAY NETWORK The five-star guard is looking to come to Lexington in September. The talk around the Kentucky Wildcats is currently about filling out the 2023-24 roster. Despite all that talk, it is AAU season, and recruiting never stops. One player on the staff's big board for the class of 2024 is five-star point guard, Boogie Fland. After an impressive start to his summer on the EYBL tour, Fland is now starting to get in the process of scheduling official visits. According to a report by Joe Tipton of On3, Fland is looking to...

Jeff Faughender/Courier Journal and USA Today Network / USA TODAY NETWORK Headlined by Devin Leary. Mark Stoops put together an impressive transfer portal class to pair with a plethora of returning players for the 2023 football season. Stoops’ incoming class ranked as the No. 18 class with 12 commits. After losing Will Levis to the NFL, Stoops and Liam Coen again hit the portal for their QB1 and found it in North Carolina State transfer Devin Leary, who finished ranked as the No. 8 overall transfer and the No. 2 QB. Leary finished just one spot behind Sam Hartman, a...

Photo by Matthew Stockman/ These two former Wildcats shined. Will they be joined by Tyler Herro in Game 2? The Denver Nuggets throttled the Miami Heat in Game 1 of the 2023 NBA Finals. They took a 17-point lead into the half and then ran that up to 21 points to end the third. The Heat made a small comeback to make the final score 104-93. Bam Adebayo played a huge role for Miami and was the team’s leading scorer. He finished 13-for-25 from the field and also had a team-high 13 rebounds. Adebayo finished with 5 assists and just 1 turnover as well. He didn’t get to the...

UK Athletics Some much-needed good news for Kentucky Basketball. We don’t need to remind you how challenging this offseason has been for the Kentucky Wildcats, so how about some good news for a change? At various points in the previous months, there was concern that five-star signees Rob Dillingham and/or Aaron Bradshaw may not make it to UK’s campus for various reasons. Thankfully, both players are now on campus and are in the process of getting settled into their new homes. On Friday, the Kentucky Basketball Twitter account posted shots of both Dillingham and...

UK Baseball Twitter Kentucky will get things started at noon ET today. The NCAA Lexington Regional has arrived as play gets underway later on today at Kentucky Proud Park. The featured teams are Ball State, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia. This weekend’s schedule is — for now — set to go through Sunday, but a potential winner-take-all game could be played on Monday if necessary. In the first game, the Kentucky Wildcats will host Ball State at noon ET. The game will be televised on the SEC Network. That game will be followed by West Virginia taking on...

Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports The Cats are going to miss on another transfer target. The Kentucky Wildcats can just not get any good news this offseason. After missing out on Hunter Dickinson and Keshad Johnson in the transfer portal already this offseason, it appears that John Calipari and his staff will ultimately lose out on another player with ties to the program. According to a report by Kyle Tucker of The Athletic, St. John's transfer David Jones is trending towards committing to Penny Hardaway and the Memphis Tigers. And according to KSR’s Matt Jones, this...

Bleav in Kentucky Oscar is off to the pros. What’s next? It’s been a rough offseason for Kentucky Basketball, which culminated with Wednesday’s NBA Draft withdrawal deadline when Oscar Tshiebwe and Chris Livingston opted to stay in the draft. On the latest episode of Bleav in Kentucky, Vinny Hardy, Aaron Gershon, and Jalen Whitlow discussed all the latest news around the program, including: Oscar Tshiebwe’s time in Lexington is over. Their favorite Tshiebwe memories. What’s next for the men’s basketball roster? Jordan Anthony enters the transfer...

Sam Upshaw Jr./Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK The UK AD trusts that Coach Cal will put the best team on the court. The offseason for the Kentucky Wildcats has been quite underwhelming. With several misses in the transfer portal, and the potential to go 0-3 on the NBA Draft decisions, that has left all of BBN asking the same question; what is going to happen with this roster? With the calendar turning to June 1st, and there currently being seven scholarship players on the roster, Kentucky’s Athletic Director, Mitch Barnhart, is not worried about the roster that...

Photo by Todd Kirkland/ Say goodbye to divisions. The SEC has announced a new scheduling format for the 2024 season. This comes as the league transitions to 16 teams with next year’s addition of the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners. In the one-year schedule, SEC teams will play eight conference games, plus one opponent from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, or major independent in 2024. The Kentucky Wildcats will meet that requirement with the annual Governor’s Cup series with the Louisville Cardinals. However, it is still possible the league eventually moves to...

Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Four Cats will be featured in the seven-game series. After the Celtics came back from down 3-0 to tie the Eastern Conference Finals at three games apiece just to lose at home, the NBA Finals have been set. It will be the Jimmy Butler-led Miami Heat battling the Nikola Jokic-led Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets swept the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. That said, the Heat have two former Cats on their team, with the Nuggets having one, so a former Kentucky Wildcats’ standout player will earn a ring for the first time in any of the...

Drew Brown - A Sea Of Blue Will Calipari be able to salvage this offseason? It’s safe to say this has been one of, if not the worst offseason Kentucky Basketball has endured under head coach John Calipari. After another first-weekend exit in the NCAA Tournament, Kentucky watched all but two players eventually leave via the NBA Draft or transfer portal. The two guys coming back — Adou Thiero and Ugonna Onyenso — combined to score 4.8 points per game. And Onyenso did actually try to transfer before ultimately returning. Wednesday saw Oscar Tshiebwe and Chris...

Photo by Mitchell Layton/ The waiting game continues to see if Reeves will be back in Lexington. And what’s up with Aaron Bradshaw? Yesterday was... well... not the best day for Kentucky Basketball. As most expected, Chris Livingston and Oscar Tshiebwe opted to stay in the NBA Draft, although most mock drafts do not project either to be selected. There was some hope the latter would return to school, but reports came out earlier in the day yesterday indicating that Oscar wanted to give the professional ranks a shot. On the other hand, while we now have some closure...

Photo by John Jones/Icon Sportswire via Some much-needed good news. The Kentucky Wildcats will have one of the most stacked recruiting classes in recent history this upcoming season. With the likes of Aaron Bradshaw, Justin Edwards, and DJ Wagner, all prospects ranked in RSCI’s’ top 10, the Cats are laced with talent, even if they are lacking a bit in the experience department. One other name to keep an eye on is Reed Sheppard. With a legacy in the Bluegrass State, Sheppard will join the Cats as a four-star recruit and could contend to be the team’s best...

Isamu Haynes-Sunayama - A Sea of Blue Livingston is ready for a shot at the pros. Kentucky Wildcats forward Chris Livingston will remain in the 2023 NBA Draft and end his college career. The Athletic reporter Shams Charania broke the news first. Livingston joins Oscar Tshiebwe as Kentucky players to announce they will keep their name in the draft prior to tonight’s NCAA withdrawal deadline. Kentucky freshman Chris Livingston is staying in the 2023 NBA Draft in June, his agent Brandon Cavanaugh of Klutch Sports Group tells @TheAthletic @Stadium. Livingston, a...