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Kentucky has finished in the top 25 in ESPN‘s SP+ rankings three times in the last six seasons. The analytics ranking is again calling for the Wildcats to be a top-25 team in 2024. In the final preseason ranking of 2024, the Wildcats are the 10th SEC team to make an appearance in the top-25. Kentucky checks in at No. 25 overall, No. 31 on offense, No. 31 on defense, and No. 39 on special teams. SP+ is “a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking, and along tho...
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Kentucky Sports Radio is spread out across Lexington and Louisville this morning, with Matt and Shannon in the Louisville studio and Ryan and Drew at KSBar and Grille in Lexington. On the show, they will continue the discussion about the Wildcats and lots more during Matt Jones’ final week on the show for the summer. In the second hour, ourcontest winner will guest host the show for the final 30 minutes. He will take Matt’s seat for 15 minutes and then finish the last 15 minutes without Ryan, Drew, or Shannon. You can join the conversation by phone at (859) 280-2287. Here on the KSR website, y...
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Hello, KSR readers. How are you this Tuesday morning? Do you have big Taco Tuesday plans? Before you get too far into your Tuesday, below you’ll find a brief rundown of events as we are one day closer to Kentucky Baseball playing its first game of the 2024 postseason. At the same time, Kentucky Basketball battles Tennessee and BYU for one of the Wildcats’ top remaining targets out of the portal, and the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals Game 1. The SEC Baseball Tournament begins todayToday marks the beginning of the 2024 SEC Baseball Tournament in Hoover, Alabama. Your University of Kentucky Wil...
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Right when Kenny Brooks was hired, he made it known that Kentucky was a “sleeping giant” within the Southeastern Conference. Whether you like it or not, the SEC is the best conference in women’s college basketball. The last three national champions (South Carolina twice and LSU) came from the SEC. It’s just not a two-team league either. There were six total teams from the SEC in On3’s post-spring Top 25 as well. When you add in Texas and Oklahoma — two top-15 programs — the league just gets deeper. So, in what is the deepest, most talented, and most physical conference in the nation, where doe...
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Kentucky junior Deone Walker could be a household name in college football this upcoming season. The Detroit (Mich.) Cass Tech product was a four-star recruit before becoming a team captain and first-team All-SEC selection as a true sophomore in 2023 recording 55 tackles and 12.5 tackles for loss. The NFL Draft buzz is quickly beginning to pick up steam for the Kentucky star. Expectations in Lexington are high for Deone Walker in year three, but the potential draft ceiling could be higher. PFF lists Walker as the No. 5 overall prospect in the 2025 cycle. The sophomore’s 51 pressures this past ...
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If recruiting is the lifeblood of a college football program, power rankings are the lifeblood of Talking Season. It’s not the best tool to figure out exactly where your favorite program stands. As the standings shake out near the end of the year, programs will be clumped together in tiers. “Tiering the SEC” doesn’t slap the same as “Power Ranking the SEC,” which is why we’ll save where Kentucky stands in the former until later in Talking Season. As for today, On3’s Jesse Simonton gave us a snippet of what’s to come later this summer when the league converges upon Dallas for SEC Media Days. Ok...
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Tounde Yessoufou can’t tell his basketball story without including the Kentucky Wildcats. A native of Benin in West Africa, the top-20 prospect in the class of 2025 started playing basketball when he was 10 years old, sparking his move to the United States to pursue his dream of doing it professionally. He arrived shortly before his freshman year at St. Joseph High School in Santa Maria, California just three years ago with his eyes on Lexington. “Nobody in my family ever played basketball, I just saw it and loved it,” the 6-6 forward said. “I knew I wanted to put my heart into it. Coming to t...
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Xander Schauffele’s name has been etched on the Wanamaker Trophy after surviving 72 holes of the PGA Championship. Last week I spent four days working at Valhalla Golf Club. In the midst of all the chaos, I couldn’t get one line from Kentucky spring practice out of my head. Brock Vandagriff scored a few touchdowns during his first appearance in a Kentucky uniform at the Blue-White “Spring Game.” He looked solid, but there weren’t a ton of “wow” plays. The way he put it, that was exactly what new offensive coordinator Bush Hamdan wanted to see. “What he wanted the quarterbacks to do is to come ...
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Mark Pope and his assistants probably didn’t get much sleep over the weekend. With this being the first opportunity of the AAU season for college coaches to watch high school recruits in person, there were plenty of talented prospects to check out. The Kentucky staff made stops in Indianapolis (Nike EYBL), Texas (adidas 3SSB), and Kansas (Puma PRO16) from Friday-Sunday. Pope and assistant coach Jason Hart started in Indy on Friday while assistants Cody Fueger and Alvin Brooks were in Bryan (TX) and Wichita (KS), respectively. Fueger stayed in Texas on Saturday while Brooks joined Pope and Hart...
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Kentucky grad transfer DH Nick Lopez and left fielder Ryan Waldschmidt were both named to All-SEC teams, the conference announced Monday. Lopez was named to the First Team at the DH/UT position, and Waldschmidt made Second Team as an outfielder. Nick Lopez and Ryan Waldschmidt become the 12th and 13th All-SEC players to play at Kentucky in the Nick Mingione era (2017-present). Lopez is the seventh to make First Team, while Waldschmidt is the sixth to make Second Team. The entire list is below: First-Teamers: OF Tristan Pompey (2017), SP Sean Hjelle (2017), RHP Logan Salow (2017), 1B Kole Cotta...
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