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Cason Wallace declares for NBA draft. What’s next for Kentucky at the point guard spot?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — As expected, Cason Wallace’s first season as a Kentucky Wildcat will be his last.

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Mark Story: Will UK basketball learn the right lessons from the 2023 NCAA Tournament?

The 2023 men’s basketball NCAA Tournament has proven this season’s conventional wisdom right in one major regard.

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Five big questions for Kentucky basketball (and John Calipari) as the offseason begins

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A pattern is developing for the Kentucky basketball program, and it’s not pretty.

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The biggest decision of the Kentucky basketball offseason could reshape the next Wildcats roster

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Their final game finished and Kentucky’s basketball season officially done, the Wildcats filed off the court in Greensboro Coliseum on Sunday afternoon. The last Cat to leave the playing surface was freshman Chris Livingston, his head down, and UK assistant coach Chin Coleman walking alongside with a…

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Mark Story: For Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe, decision on what to do next is complicated

It seems likely that Oscar Tshiebwe has played his final game for the Kentucky Wildcats.

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John Clay: Kentucky fans are right to have high expectations. John Calipari isn’t meeting them.

When asked by the national media, or from someone outside the Bluegrass, the question always comes with a smirk.

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Mark Story: 7 things you need to know from UK’s season-ending 75-69 loss to Kansas State

Seven things you need to know from No. 6 seed Kentucky’s 75-69 loss to No. 3 seed Kansas State in the men’s NCAA Tournament’s East Region round of 32 at Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina:

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The streak is over. Kentucky beats Providence for first NCAA Tournament win in four years.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — For the first time in four years, Kentucky has won an NCAA Tournament game.

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John Clay: Saint Peter’s flashbacks linger as Kentucky basketball begins NCAA Tournament play

LEXINGTON, Ky. — One year ago in an elevator at the Hyatt Place Hotel in Indianapolis, Mark Story and I were debating whether what he had just witnessed — No. 2 seed Kentucky’s shocking loss to No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s — qualified as the worst NCAA Tournament defeat in…

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John Clay: Providence’s Bryce Hopkins is a nightmare waiting to happen for Big Blue Nation

It’s the worst-case scenario. For the second straight year, Kentucky suffers a first-round knockout in the NCAA Tournament. Last year, Saint Peter’s. This year, Bryce Hopkins.

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Kentucky’s trip to the SEC tournament is a short one as Vanderbilt pulls off upset in Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Cason Wallace returned to the court, Kentucky jumped out to a double-digit lead in the game’s opening minutes, and it didn’t matter for the Wildcats in the end.

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Mark Story: If you put stock in omens, here’s why March Madness might be good for UK basketball

If you have a firm feeling on what to expect from the Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team in the 2023 edition of March Madness, you are ahead of me.

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Antonio Reeves’ career game lifts Kentucky over Arkansas in wild regular-season finale

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Technical fouls, flagrant fouls, irate coaches and frenzied fans.

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Mark Story: Is a factor that led to Kentucky's debacle vs. Saint Peter’s about to bite the Cats again?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — It seems self-evident that if Kentucky does not have Cason Wallace moving forward, the Wildcats’ season is cooked.

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Vanderbilt stuns Kentucky as Cats lose Cason Wallace to injury

LEXINGTON, Ky. — What was supposed to be a night of celebration in Rupp Arena turned into a nightmare scenario for the Kentucky Wildcats.

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John Clay: Kentucky basketball faces its next test: Can the Cats keep it in overdrive?

A basketball season is a series of tests. Early tests. Middle tests. Late tests. Hard tests. Easy tests. A team won’t pass every test. Bobby Knight’s Indiana was the last to ace them all way back in 1975-76. Still, it must pass more than it fails. To be elite, many…

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John Clay: UK is playing its best basketball of the season. Do we owe John Calipari an apology?

Headline then: Has John Calipari at Kentucky run its course?

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Kentucky annihilates Auburn by 32 points in Wildcats’ most impressive victory of the season

LEXINGTON, Ky. — With 95 seconds left in the first half Saturday evening, what had been a close game to that point was still anybody’s contest. It didn’t take long for Kentucky to shut the door.

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Mark Story: Will the SEC be fair to Kentucky in coming football schedule changes?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Even with the arrivals of Texas and Oklahoma to the Southeastern Conference moved up to 2024, Mitch Barnhart continues to make clear that Kentucky is still in favor of SEC teams staying at eight league football games played annually, not nine.

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Kentucky sweeps Florida to boost NCAA Tournament résumé

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — What was shaping up as one of Kentucky’s best basketball games of the season took a hard turn before halftime.

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Mark Story: Of ex-Cats turned college head coaches, who has best chance to make the NCAA tourney?

After the firings in recent seasons of Allen Edwards (Wyoming), Steve Masiello (Manhattan) and Scott Padgett (Samford), the 2022-23 men’s college basketball season tipped off with only four ex-Kentucky Wildcats players serving as NCAA Division I head coaches.

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John Clay: If you can figure out this 2022-23 Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, please let know

You do it. You figure this team out. You tell me how this Kentucky team can lose at home to South Carolina and then beat Tennessee on the road. You tell me how Kentucky can look so bad one Saturday against Georgia, then look so good the next in sweeping…

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Kentucky pops No. 10 Tennessee early, holds on for another statement victory

LEXINGTON, Ky. — What was expected to be one of the toughest games remaining on Kentucky’s basketball schedule looked more like a walkover for the Wildcats for much of Saturday afternoon.

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‘Coach’ Tyler Ulis is settling back in at Kentucky. ‘I think he’s where he should be.’

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A few days into his new gig — and just a few minutes into Kentucky’s most important basketball game of the season — Tyler Ulis was all in.

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John Clay: Are injuries the reason for Kentucky basketball’s disappointing season, or an excuse?

After Kentucky’s 75-68 loss at Georgia on Saturday, UK head coach John Calipari sarcastically mentioned he was sure it would be noted the Cats were without injured players Sahvir Wheeler and CJ Fredrick.

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