sec-basketball-2008--09 Stories - Garnet And Black Attack
2008-2009 Gamecocks Hoops: Two Perspectives on Reviewing Darrin Horn, the Season, and Looking ahead to the Future
Now that the season is over, we can give a little thought to our new coach, our overall performance this year, and our prospects for next year. On the surface, this year was a success, considering that we surpassed most prognosticators' expectations. On the other hand, our late season collapse has...
Kentucky Basketball: Can somebody get me a beer so I can put these flames out?
Crashing and burning is something that happens to other teams, not to Kentucky. Not until now. In the parlance of fighter pilots, Kentucky "augered in" last night. Cratered. Dug a hole. Nothing left now but the flaming wreckage of the season and a divided and angry fan base. Did I say...
Kentucky Wildcats vs. Georgia Bulldogs: Gameday Breakdown
Senior Night at Kentucky (19-10, 8-6) is always special. This year it's not only special, but a win versus SEC East cellar-dweller Georgia (11-18, 2-12) is an absolute necessity if UK is to have any chance at all of making the NCAA Tournament. A loss tonight would most certainly relegate UK to...
LSU 73, Kentucky 70: Postmortem
Another day, another frustrating loss for Kentucky. I said this was the biggest game of the year for the 'Cats, and it was. It was a great college basketball game by both teams, incredible intensity and tenacious defense -- the kind of game you expect to see at the end of February, but not the...
Kentucky Wildcats vs. LSU: Gameday Breakdown
If heat shrinks, then UK head honcho Billy Gillispie must stand 5'5" about right now. "Honey, We Shrunk the Coach" is the next Rick Moranis masterpiece headed to movie theater's across the Commonwealth. It's only February, but the Craft Center must feel like a sauna in the Sahara, with no...
Kentucky Wildcats @ South Carolina: Gameday Breakdown
Sole possession of first place in the SEC East is all that's at stake tonight in Columbia, South Carolina. With LSU defeating the Florida Gators 81-75 in a terrific game in Baton Rouge last night, UK and South Carolina (19-6, 8-4) find themselves tied at 8-4 in SEC play. And with only...
Pondering the Kentucky Wildcats
So here we sit, a day removed from an impressive UK sweep of the Tennessee Volunteers. For UK fans, this one is doubly sweet after all the pre-season angst over Scotty Hopson and Bobby Maze, who then added insult to injury be declaring Tennessee a high-performance sports car and UK an expensive...
The Road to the SEC East Championship
Georgia's heroics yesterday broke a four-way tie atop the SEC East leaderboard, still leaving Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee at 7-3, with Florida now a game back at 6-4. With three weeks and six games left to play, we take a look at each team's remaining schedule and their odds on...
SEC Basketball Midseason Report
With all of the league having completed eight conference games now, we take a look at what's been a very competitive SEC this season, now at the midway point. With half the league still in the NCAA Tournament conversation, while the overall talent level may be down as expected, there are still...
SEC Basketball: At the First Turn
A little more than a quarter of the way into the 2009 SEC Basketball season, a few of our ideas have been validated: Kentucky, Florida and Tennessee will once again lead the way Ole Miss can't recover from their injury situation Georgia used up all their good karma in the SEC Tournament last...
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