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Kentucky Wildcats baseball was selected as the No. 2 overall seed in the NCAA tournament, the highest such ranking in the program’s history. As a reward for their hard work throughout the 2024 campaign, Kentucky will host a regional tournament for the second straight season under head coach Nick Mingione. As the Wildcats gear up for the first game of the Lexington regional against Western Michigan on Friday, their head coach took a moment to share his feelings about their historic 2024 run. “It feels great. [I’m] proud of our guys,” Mingione said. Obviously, you’ve heard me say this over and o...
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Will Levis still is motivated by what happened in April, 2023. He can’t forget the slip through the first round of the NFL Draft before the Titans snatched him up with the first pick of the second. Levis, the former Kentucky star, thought he would be an elite draft pick. So did just about every draft analyst. Instead, he was selected at No. 32, with the Titans landing the fourth quarterback off the board. All four of the quarterbacks started as rookies. But it took Levis until about the halfway point of his rookie season in Tennessee to earn QB1 distinction ahead of veteran Ryan Tannehill. “It...
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Another Kentucky transfer commit has officially decided to pull out of the 2024 NBA Draft and return to college to play for Mark Pope. According to college hoops insider Jon Rothstein, former Wake Forest forward and Kentucky commit Andrew Carr is returning to school and will head to Lexington. Here was Rothstein’s tweet with that news: “Andrew Carr tells me that he will withdraw from the 2024 NBA Draft and play next season at Kentucky. Transfer from Wake Forest.” Carr now joins Lamont Butler and Amari Williams as Kentucky transfers who have announced on Tuesday their intentions to return to co...
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We finally have a 2024 NCAA Baseball Tournament bracket in our hands, featuring 16 regional host sites with four different teams in each of those. Right now, we’ll be taking a look at the Lexington Regional, hosted by one of nearly a dozen SEC representatives in the tournament, Kentucky. The Wildcats not only earned the right to host a regional, but are also the No. 2 overall seed, meaning they’ll host a super regional as well if they’re able to advance past this weekend. Try Fubo for FREE today and don’t miss any of the action! As for how likely that scenario is, the folks at DraftKings alrea...
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The contract details for the Kentucky Wildcats new head basketball coach Mark Pope have been released by Kentucky. It’s a five-year deal, during which he’ll earn $27.5 million. That’s about $5.5 million per year over the course of his contract, with his first-year salary set at $5 million. Pope’s salary will increase by $250,000 per season throughout the duration of the deal. This story will be updated. The post Kentucky releases financial details of Mark Pope contract appeared first on On3.
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Indiana State (42-13, 22-5) finished as the Runner-Ups in the 2024 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, which was won by Evansville. The Sycamores however received an at-large bid and will be the No. 2 seed in the Lexington Regional. As of May 26, both D1Baseball (No. 15) and Baseball America (No. 13) projected Indiana State as a Regional Host in its final Field of 64 Projections. However, eight teams with a lower RPI than the Sycamores were rewarded Regionals (Arizona, East Carolina, NC State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, UC Santa Barbara, and Virginia). With the 10th best RPI in...
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Former Kentucky football coach Rich Brooks is living it up in his retirement, recently enjoying fishing trips and spending countless hours on the golf course. That is well-deserved, as his coaching career spanned from 1966 through 2009. However, his hard work on the golf course paid off on Monday when Brooks hit a hole-in-one at the Coaches Classic at Pebble Beach. The shot was not caught on video, but one of Brooks’ golf-mates were on scene to watch him pick it up out of the hole. According to Brooks, it was the second time he’s ever shot a hole-in-one. “Pebble Beach, Spanish Bay [CA] — we th...
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It was announced Monday afternoon that Kentucky Baseball will be the No. 2 National Seed in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, its highest national seed in program history. The Cats will be joined in the Lexington Regional by Indiana State, Illinois, and Western Michigan. If Kentucky can make it out of the Lexington Regional for the second consecutive season, Kentucky Proud Park would play host to its first ever Super Regional. Kentucky would play the winner of the Corvallis Regional, consisting of Oregon State, UC-Irvine, Nicholls, and Tulane. Kentucky clinched a share of its second ever SEC Regular S...
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The college basketball community has been flooded with memories and tributes to Bill Walton after his death was announced on Monday. Kentucky head coach Mark Pope is the latest, sharing a photo with the NBA legend during his time at BYU. Pope opened up on his perspective on Walton as well. “So much love for Bill Walton. He loved people, loved the game, and loved life! He was a generous friend to all of us. Will miss him,” the UK headman wrote on X. The post Mark Pope on Bill Walton death: ‘He was a generous friend to all of us’ appeared first on On3.
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Beginning next season, the SEC Baseball Tournament will expand to 16 teams with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma into the conference. With that comes a change in the double-elimination format that the conference has used since the last realignment. The new format will feature a simplified single-elimination format. The 9-16 seeds will battle it out in the first round while the 5-8 seeds will play the winners of those games in the second round. The top four seeds will receive double byes. For some coaches in the league, this is the preferred way to play the tournament. “I will not miss it,” K...
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