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April 3, 2012 10:33 AM
Part of UK's success formula: keep the ball from making it to the rim.
With 11 blocked shots in Monday night's 67-59 win over Kansas in the NCAA championship game, the Cats broke a an NCAA championship game record previously set by UConn in 2011 and Florida in 2006....
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April 3, 2012 2:02 AM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Kentucky potentially has three NBA lottery picks, five that could go in the first round. When they might enter the draft is still up in the air. Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Darius Miller, Doron Lamb and Terrence Jones were all noncommittal about their plans for next...
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April 3, 2012 1:47 AM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - There's so much more to Kentucky than Anthony Davis. These were the collaborative 'Cats, and that's what made them so tough to beat. Davis' supporting cast made the most of their turns in the spotlight Monday night, picking up the scoring slack for their freshman star...
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April 3, 2012 1:22 AM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Kentucky's Anthony Davis has been selected the Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four after dominating defensively in Monday night's NCAA championship game. The freshman forward had a rough night on offense, scoring six points on 1-of-10 shooting. He made up for it with defense, tying...
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April 3, 2012 1:16 AM
EW ORLEANS (AP) - Anthony Davis did everything but score. He didn't need to. The player of the year was simply sublime in Kentucky's 67-59 victory over Kansas on Monday night that gave the Wildcats their eighth national title. His presence in the lane forced Kansas to back off and...
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April 1, 2012 11:30 PM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Kentucky star Anthony Davis has won the Naismith Trophy for men's college player of the year. Davis is the first player from Kentucky to win the award and the second freshman, joining Texas' Kevin Durant in 2007. He is the first Naismith Trophy winner from the...
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April 1, 2012 5:11 PM
At times players have to hold back when it comes to talking about who they are going to play.
On the one hand, it's obvious that Thomas Robinson respects Anthony Davis. But he also says that Davis isn't "Superman."
Kansas believes it's not going to be a matchup...
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March 31, 2012 3:13 PM
Freshman Anthony Davis received the John R. Wooden Award for National Player of the Year as announced by the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Saturday.
He is the first Wildcat in program history to win the award.
Davis has had one of the most memorable freshman campaigns in...
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March 25, 2012 9:46 PM
ATLANTA (AP) - Kentucky could've cut the nets down at halftime. Actually, the Wildcats probably would've been good skipping the ceremony altogether. A South Regional title is fine, but what matters to this bunch of future NBA stars is breaking out the scissors in the Big Easy. Top-seeded Kentucky advanced...
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March 25, 2012 8:44 AM
One of the great things about this UK team is that they appreciate. They are old school in many ways. They don't take for granted all the True Blue fans who support the team.
Anthony Davis had a moment against Indiana that he won't soon forget.
"It was...
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March 13, 2012 12:56 PM
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) selected University of Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis as the men's National Freshman of the Year in conjunction with the 2012 Wayman Tisdale Award.
The Chicago native was selected as a first-team All-America selection by the USBWA on Monday. He averaged 14.3 points and...
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March 10, 2012 5:54 PM
Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes Kentucky vs. Florida March 10, 2012 SEC Tournament Semifinals New Orleans Arena - New Orleans, La.
-- Kentucky improves to 32-1, while Florida falls to 23-10. -- The Wildcats are 93-33 all-time against Florida and 12-3 against the Gators in the SEC Tournament. -- Kentucky...
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March 10, 2012 3:07 PM
Kentucky battled back to beat Florida 74-71 Saturday afternoon in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament in New Orleans. Kentucky used a 14-0 run to take a 65-56 lead with 7 minutes to go but had to withstand a furious Florida comeback to advance to Sunday's final.
Marquis Teague...
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March 4, 2012 7:02 PM
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Kentucky coach John Calipari never mentioned perfection to his team before Sunday's game at Florida. He talked about pride. The Wildcats ended up with both. Freshman Anthony Davis had 22 points, 12 rebounds and six blocks, Terrence Jones added 19 points and the top-ranked Wildcats capped...
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March 4, 2012 6:57 PM
Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes Kentucky vs. Florida March 4, 2012 O'Connell Center - Gainesville, Fla.
-- Kentucky improves to 30-1, 16-0 in the Southeastern Conference, while Florida drops to 22-9, 10-6. -- The Wildcats are 115-25 all-time against Florida and 33-22 against Florida in Gainesville. -- UK is now...
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February 29, 2012 6:45 PM
UK's two great freshman are up for the player of the year.
Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist are part of the 30 finalists for the 2012 Naismith Men's Basketball Player of the Year Award.
Davis, a 6-foot-10, 222-pound center leads the country in blocks (138 and 4.8 per...
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February 25, 2012 5:31 PM
The game starts and Cal is really mad. He's mad at the team. He doesn't like the shoot around before the game, or the way the Cats came out. He didn't like their attitudes. He doesn't like the fact it's 12:00 and they are not ready to play. He's mad....
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February 25, 2012 4:37 PM
(AP) - Freshman Anthony Davis again found himself with the ball and only a few seconds left to react. The 6-foot-10 forward squared up, burying a long jumper that buoyed his national player of the year push in one superb sequence. Davis scored a career-high 28 points on 10-of-11 shooting,...
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February 25, 2012 4:22 PM
Vanderbilt at Kentucky Men's Basketball Post-Game Notes Rupp Arena, Lexington, Ky., Feb. 25, 2012 Attendance: 24,388
FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 83, Vanderbilt 74
Team Records and Series Notes
• Kentucky is 28-1 overall and has won 20 in a row. • UK is 14-0 in Southeastern Conference play. Kentucky clinched...
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February 7, 2012 11:01 PM
(AP) - Doron Lamb struggled to explain why top-ranked Kentucky could roll so easily over No. 8 Florida. It's much easier for the Wildcats to talk about their goal. "I told somebody we were going to blow them out today. I just felt it coming," said Lamb, who finished with...
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February 7, 2012 10:45 PM
Kentucky Men's Basketball Kentucky vs. Florida Postgame Quotes Rupp Arena - Lexington, Ky. Feb. 7, 2012
Kentucky Players
#23, Anthony Davis, F
On tonight's game... "We did a great job. They like to shoot 3's, almost thirty a game. We held them to 6. We did an...
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February 6, 2012 6:14 PM
There is a fine line between having swagger which this team now does and being arrogant. Cal is a little concerned about it so he's going to talk to the team.
"They are good, but I'm going to, what you want to do is address it and we'll talk...
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February 6, 2012 1:06 PM
Kentucky's top 2 freshman continue to be placed with the best players in college basketball.
UK freshmen Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist were both among 20 players named to the 2012 Oscar Robertson National Player of the Year midseason watch list.
Davis, a 6-foot-10, 222-pound freshman forward from...
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February 4, 2012 10:40 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Anthony Davis couldn't believe all the Kentucky blue he saw around South Carolina's home court, so he and the No. 1 Wildcats put on a performance that would've drawn several standing ovations at Rupp Arena. Davis had 22 points, eight rebounds and eight blocks to lead...
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February 4, 2012 8:55 PM
Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes Kentucky vs. South Carolina February 4, 2012 Colonial Life Arena - Columbia, S.C.
-- Kentucky improves to 23-1, 9-0 in the Southeastern Conference, while South Carolina falls to 9-13, 1-7. -- The Wildcats are 46-10 all-time against South Carolina and 18-6 in Columbia. -- UK...
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January 28, 2012 11:36 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Something clicked inside Terrence Jones when he saw teammate Anthony Davis lying on his back in pain after a hard collision under the LSU basket. "When stuff like that happens to one of your brothers, you don't like that," Jones said. "The only way we...
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January 28, 2012 4:52 PM
LSU played host to UK already owning one more win that last year. Their problem is offense. 11 of their 12 wins came when they held their opponent under 60 points.
UK came out firing. With Doron Lamb and Marquis Teague quickly hitting 3's out of the gate, the...
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January 21, 2012 10:25 AM
If you are voting for the best player in the SEC, there is no need to vote. As of today, it's Anthony Davis.
Remember when he had trouble making a free throw?
Remember when his shooting percentage from the field was better than his free throw percentage?
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January 18, 2012 9:57 AM
Anthony Davis shattered the University of Kentucky single-season shot block mark during the Cats' 86-63 win over Arkansas Tuesday night.
The 6-foot-10 freshman broke the record of 83 set by Melvin Turpin and equaled by Andre Riddick late in the first half of Tuesday's game. Davis swatted away a...
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January 16, 2012 12:13 PM
The SEC named UK freshman Anthony Davis its Freshman of the Week Monday.
The 6-foot-10, 222-pound Cat averaged 16 points, seven rebounds, four blocks, 2.5 steals and two assists in wins at Auburn and Tennessee.
Davis tallied eight blocks on the week moving him to within one block...
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January 11, 2012 11:25 PM
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Kentucky coach John Calipari recalls Auburn's Tony Barbee as "one of the most hard-headed players I've ever coached." The second-ranked Wildcats found Barbee's team similarly stubborn Wednesday night before finishing an uneven performance with a flourish in a 68-53 win over the Tigers on Wednesday night....
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January 3, 2012 11:07 PM
Kentucky Men's Basketball UK vs. Arkansas-Little Rock Postgame Quotes Freedom Hall - Louisville, Ky. Jan. 3, 2012
Kentucky Head Coach John Calipari
On the difference between the first half and the second half ... "Well, they played well. They made shots. They beat us to every ball and...
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January 3, 2012 11:00 PM
Arkansas-Little Rock vs. Kentucky Men's Basketball Post-Game Notes Freedom Hall, Louisville, Ky., Jan. 3, 2012 Attendance: 14,747
FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 73, Arkansas-Little Rock 51
Team Records and Series Notes
• Kentucky is 14-1 and Arkansas-Little Rock is 5-11. • This was the first meeting between UK and UALR. • UK...
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January 3, 2012 10:34 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky coach John Calipari wanted to watch the game film of the Wildcats' victory over Arkansas-Little Rock on the ride home to Lexington. Then, he had another plan for it. "I'll watch the tape on the drive home just to get rid of it because I...
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December 17, 2011 11:41 PM
Kentucky Men's Basketball UK vs. Chattanooga Postgame Quotes Rupp Arena - Lexington, Ky. Dec. 17, 2011
Kentucky Players
#25, Marquis Teague, G
On how he thought he played ... "I think I played pretty well and under control. I ran the offense and tried to get everyone...
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December 17, 2011 11:36 PM
Portland at Kentucky Rupp Arena, Lexington, Ky., Dec. 17, 2011 Post-Game Notes Attendance: 23,211
FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 87, Chattanooga 62
Team Records and Series Notes
• Kentucky is 9-1 and Chattanooga is 3-8. • Kentucky leads the series, 12-0, and is 18-0 all-time against teams from the current configuration...
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December 16, 2011 6:44 PM
Cal like many coaches likes to say he has a 24 hour rule.
After you get beat by Indiana, you have to quickly move on and get over it. Sounds nice, but in reality, it's not how it works. You don't feel the same way all week after a...
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December 16, 2011 4:41 PM
Kentucky Men's Basketball
December 16, 2011
Pre-Chattanooga Media Opportunity
UK Head Coach John Calipari
On practice being different this week ... "I think the one thing I learned after the game at Indiana is that we need to have more rough-house practices, a little tougher and...
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December 3, 2011 5:43 PM
Roy Williams thought his defense did a better job in the second half, and then he looked at the stats and saw that UK shot 56%.
If someone would have told you that UK was going to shoot 23% from downtown and get outscored by 21 from three point...
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December 3, 2011 2:35 PM
(AP) - Freshman Anthony Davis blocked John Henson's shot in the final seconds and Doron Lamb scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half as No. 1 Kentucky held on to beat No. 5 North Carolina 73-72 on Saturday to extend the Wildcats' home winning streak to 39...
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November 16, 2011 1:43 PM
Cal is really happy to win, but not happy with the way his team played.
Since Cal expects to have young teams every year, unless the NBA makes his players stay in college, his reaction to beating Kansas 75-65 is what you expect.
"Did my 7-footer shoot a...
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November 14, 2011 5:34 PM
Pressure can do funny things to athletes. Cal is doing his best to take pressure off his team. Do the best you can against Kansas Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. If it's not good enough, don't worry about it. It's a long season. UK will just move on and...
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October 18, 2011 12:59 PM
This makes for a fun debate. But when you take a step back and think about having 5 players in the Top 70, and I'm not sure that Darius Miller isn't getting a fair shake, it's another example of the talent Cal has put together.
CBSSPORTS.COM has five Cats...
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October 1, 2011 12:31 AM
Anthony Davis gets it.
Pressure? The future UK star who many believe will be the best freshman this year isn't worried at all.
"I think there is no pressure here for any of us," says the 6-foot-10 inch center.
"We all are trying to just work hard."...
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May 19, 2011 7:43 PM
Anthony Davis skyrocketed from a little known player to the top prospect in the country in a matter of months. He's now the headliner of a headline-full recruiting class at Kentucky.
He and Michael Gilchrist, Marquis Teague and Kyle Wiltjer have all gotten to know each other well before...
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April 27, 2011 5:06 PM
Rivals.com recruiting service has released their final recruiting rankings of the season and once again Kentucky can be found near the top quite a bit.
All four Kentucky signees rank in the top 25 and three in top 10.
Rivals ranked Chicago native Anthony Davis as the No....
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April 26, 2011 4:48 PM
With the prep basketball season in the rear view mirror, recruiting services have finalized their rankings and several UK signees can be found at the top.
Chicago native Anthony Davis is the top-ranked recruit in the country according to Scout.com and ESPNU recruiting.
Michael Gilchrist, of Somerdale, N.J.,...
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