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All offseason, we have raved about Kenny Brooks. As soon as his hiring was announced, the Commonwealth of Kentucky was buzzing in excitement and anticipation. Why? Because of his remarkable track record. Brooks produced a 180-82 overall record across eight seasons at Virginia Tech, including four straight NCAA Tournament appearances and a Final Four berth in 2023. He took over a program that hadn’t won at least 20 games since the 2005-06 season, and he went on to win at least 20 games in each of his first four seasons in Blacksburg and made the NCAA Tournament in 2020-21 despite only winning 1...
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Finally. After what felt like ages of radio silence (it was actually just over two weeks), there’s more positive news regarding the Kentucky women’s basketball team. On Thursday afternoon, Penn transfer forward Jordan Obi announced her commitment to Kentucky through social media. This comes after Obi took a visit to UK just over a week ago. “I’m very excited about the addition of Jordan to our BBN family,” Head coach Kenny Brooks said of Obi, per UK’s press release. “Her experience and basketball ability will be valuable to our team in many ways. She’s a versatile player and will offer leaders...
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Immediately following his hiring, Kenny Brooks hit the ground running in Lexington. Before he took the Kentucky job, Brooks was in the middle of building a top-10 recruiting class at Virginia Tech. As expected, he managed to flip just about all of his commits and even brought over some of their roster. In his first year at Kentucky, Brooks has established that he’ll be looking to recreate the magic he had in Blacksburg. Of course, building a roster from scratch is difficult. Only two players from last season’s roster, Cassidy Rowe and Saniah Tyler, are returning. It does help that Tanah Becker...
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Not only is Kenny Brooks quickly assembling a roster that expects to be competitive in 2024-25 (although more work is still to be done), but he’s also quickly filling out his coaching staff for his first run in Lexington. On Tuesday, Brooks officially added the third piece to his staff for the upcoming season, bringing over Tim Clark from Virginia Tech to serve as Kentucky women’s basketball’s special assistant and chief of staff. “I am incredibly thankful to Coach Brooks, Mitch Barnhart and the entire University of Kentucky athletics administration for this amazing opportunity,” Clark said in...
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Kenny Brooks is slowly filling out his staff. The new Kentucky women’s basketball head coach now has his top assistant. On Wednesday morning, Lindsey Hicks was officially announced on Instagram as the program’s associate head coach. Hicks comes to Lexington after having spent the last four seasons under Brooks while the two were at Virginia Tech. She joined the Hokies in August 2020 as an assistant and was promoted to associate head coach in 2023. “I’m very thankful to be joining Coach Brooks and to be a part of Big Blue Nation,” Hicks said in UK’s press release. “The rich winning tradition of...
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In the past 17 days, we’ve seen Kentucky Women’s Basketball do a complete 180. First, former head coach Kyra Elzy was relieved of her duties on March 11. The next day, star rebounder Ajae Petty entered the transfer portal. In the days following, Janae Walker, Maddie Scherr, Eniya Russell, Nyah Leveretter, Jordy Griggs, and Brooklynn Miles all entered the portal. Out of the 12 players left on Kyra Elzy’s roster at the end of the 2023-24 season, eight of them opted to enter the portal while one graduated, prompting a complete rebuild. During that time, former Virginia Tech head coach Kenny Brook...
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When the hiring of Kenny Brooks was announced by Kentucky women’s basketball, expectations for what the program could do quickly skyrocketed — and rightly so. At both James Madison and Virginia Tech, Brooks’ career was defined by winning. And how did he win those games? By bringing in elite talent. Throughout his coaching career, Brooks has developed seven WNBA Draft picks, along with some future ones as well. Elizabeth Kitley, for example, will go down as arguably the greatest Hokie ever. Kitley averaged 17.9 points, 10.0 rebounds, and 2.2 blocks per game during her illustrious five-year coll...
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There were a handful of critical factors that helped convince Kenny Brooks to leave a terrific position he had built at Virginia Tech for the Kentucky Wildcats. A renovated Memorial Coliseum was one and the opportunity to unearth a “sleeping giant” another. But in today’s era of college basketball, you won’t get far without a commitment from the University to Name, Image, and Likeness. The Kentucky women’s basketball program is fully committed to NIL (even hiring a full-time NIL coordinator last offseason), and used that as a major selling point to bring Brooks to Lexington. NIL isn’t an area ...
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