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March 15, 2012 11:19 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb figured Kentucky's freshmen might have the jitters. Good thing the sophomores already have plenty of NCAA tournament experience to share. Jones had 22 points and 10 rebounds, Lamb scored 16 and top-seeded Kentucky began its quest for an eighth national title...
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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.
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February 18, 2012 2:19 PM
There are those who believe a team like UK, who is 25-1, needs to lose a game to get hungry again, and then make a post season run that takes them all the way.
"That's true after the Indiana game we got very hungry," says Doron Lamb. "We told...
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February 10, 2012 12:55 PM
If you start for Cal for two years and you are a sophomore, it's like being senior on many other teams.
Cal knows how to light a fire under a McDonald's All-American who is under achieving. Cal never used that word, but when he says you are playing okay,...
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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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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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December 21, 2011 6:52 PM
Like postal service employees and Santa's elves, the Christmas season is a time of extra work for the Kentucky basketball team.
No school means no limit to the number of hours teams are permitted to practice in a week. Yet even with the team often practicing twice a day...
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December 20, 2011 11:35 PM
We know it's Samford. No reason to be negative even though UK beat a team who now owns a 3-7 record.
Doron Lamb had 26 points on 8 of 12 shooting and he forced nothing. And he pulled down 6 rebounds.
As obvious as it is that Lamb...
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December 20, 2011 10:29 PM
Kentucky Men's Basketball UK vs. Samford Postgame Quotes Rupp Arena - Lexington, Ky. Dec. 20, 2011
Kentucky Players
#20, Doron Lamb, G
On possibly injuring his wrist ... "I just jammed my wrist a little bit. I think I bent it on someone's back or something. It's...
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December 20, 2011 10:23 PM
Samford at Kentucky Rupp Arena, Lexington, Ky., Dec. 20, 2011 Post-Game Notes Attendance: 21,984
FINAL SCORE: Kentucky 82, Samford 50
Team Records and Series Notes
• Kentucky is 10-1 and Samford is 3-7. • This was the first meeting between UK and Samford. The Wildcats are 19-0 all-time against...
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December 20, 2011 7:52 PM
With Terrence Jones in street clothes 90 minutes before the tip, it was obvious UK's sophomore with the bad finger wasn't going to play against Samford.
UK comes flying out of the gate hitting 8 of their first 10 shots. Starting out, Samford had some trouble just getting into...
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November 19, 2011 5:25 PM
UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) - Kentucky's star freshman Anthony Davis had just three points on Saturday. Coach John Calipari isn't concerned. Sophomore Doron Lamb had 26 points and the Wildcats routed Penn State 85-47 in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off tournament in Connecticut. Kyle Wiltjer added 19 points and Terrence Jones...
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November 10, 2011 5:26 PM
Doron Lamb who will probably start when the Cats play in New York, has no trouble admitting that he didn't get it last year as a freshman. He didn't know how hard he needed to work. He promises that this year it will be different.
He's acting like Josh...
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October 26, 2011 4:48 PM
Who can forget that UK at one point was so bad on the road last year, there were some upset UK fans.
Cal likes to say that during that streak there were plenty of True Blue fans who were thinking he was overpaid. That was all forgotten with the...
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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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June 26, 2011 6:37 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari says Doron Lamb should carry more playmaking responsibilities next season after he skipped the NBA draft to return as a sophomore. Calipari told The Courier-Journal that Lamb can play point guard at times and has some things to get better at....
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April 19, 2011 2:43 PM
Kentucky freshman Doron Lamb has decided to return to Kentucky for his sophomore season and will not declare for the NBA Draft.
Lamb, a 6-foot-4 guard from Queens, N.Y., was named to the Southeastern Conference All-Freshman Team by the league coaches and was also named Yahoo! Sports' National Sixth...
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March 13, 2011 5:25 PM
ATLANTA (AP) - John Calipari wanted reporters to see Doron Lamb leave the Georgia Dome on crutches Saturday. Calipari wanted Lamb to know he would be playing on Sunday. Lamb was healthy enough to play in, though not start, No. 15 Kentucky's 70-54 Southeastern Conference tournament championship game win over...
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March 12, 2011 5:30 PM
ATLANTA (AP) - Kentucky looks very much like a young team peaking at just the right time. Except for one little issue. Do the No. 15 Wildcats have enough players heading into the Southeastern Conference title game and the tournament that really matters? Brandon Knight finally got rolling in Atlanta,...
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March 12, 2011 4:09 PM
Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes Kentucky vs. Alabama March 12, 2011 SEC Tournament Semifinals Georgia Dome - Atlanta, Ga. -- Kentucky won its fifth-straight SEC Tournament game and improves to 24-8 on the season. Alabama falls to 21-11. --The Wildcats are 101-36 all-time against the Crimson Tide and 13-2 against Alabama...
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March 12, 2011 2:11 PM
Kentucky leads Alabama 37-21 at halftime in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament in Atlanta.
Similar to the first half of Kentucky's win Thursday in the tournament quarterfinals against Ole' Miss, Doron Lamb and Josh Harrellson carried Kentucky for most of the first twenty minutes.
Lamb knocked down...
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March 11, 2011 4:49 PM
Kentucky leads Mississippi 36-29 at halftime of their quarterfinal matchup in the SEC Tournament.
Kentucky raced out to a 10-2 lead to start the game and never trailed in the first half.
Doron Lamb leads Kentucky with 13 points. But it was Josh Harrellson who was the sparkplug...
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March 8, 2011 10:53 PM
They say defense wins championships. If UK's going to get one either in the SEC tournament or NCAA tournament, they have to be on their defensive game.
That means getting contributions from everybody. We know DeAndre Liggins can play defense and that's not going to change. The rest of...
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March 6, 2011 3:16 PM
Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes Kentucky at Tennessee March 6, 2011 Thompson-Boling Arena - Knoxville, Tenn.
-- Kentucky improved to 22-8, 10-6 SEC on the season. Tennessee drops to 18-13, 8-8 SEC. -- The Wildcats are 146-66 all-time against the Volunteers and 52-47 against Tennessee in Knoxville. -- UK swept...
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February 23, 2011 5:30 PM
Some of the numbers look terrific. UK is 13-0 when they hold the enemy under 40% shooting, and the Cats are 4th in America in blocked shots, and 9th in field goal percentage defense. Plus, UK is coming off two wins in a row at Rupp.
"We're playing together...
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February 22, 2011 9:25 PM
If you listen to the Cats, their confidence is sky high. Their attitude is right.
"We feel confident. Everybody's happy, smiling while we're having great practices and doing what Coach tells us in practice. If we keep doing that then we're going to win our games on the road,"...
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February 11, 2011 10:32 PM
There are some players who are shooters and others that are scorers. Doron Lamb is both.
He's a big time shooter. Cal's big time freshman is hitting 48% from downtown. Being a shooter is part of being a Lamb.
Do you remember Mouse McFadden? In 1986, Cleveland State...
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February 8, 2011 7:53 PM
Doron Lamb is tired, but he's still confident. He's frustrated, but he still believes.
It's good to have that perspective, but does that mean the losses aren't stinging enough?
"We're upset. We lost four games by two points. We just got to learn how to close games out...
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February 8, 2011 4:45 PM
Things are tight at UK. That's normal. You have a UK team tied for last place in the SEC East, and if UK's perfect record at Rupp under Cal doesn't continue Tuesday night, UK will be in last place by themselves.
No one feels good about what's happening with...
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January 31, 2011 12:03 PM
Terrence Jones' powerful dunk against South Carolina on January 22, 2011 was selected as a 2011 Dunk of the Year nominee, announced by sports television production and event marketing company Intersport. The 2011 Dunk of the Year is wholly determined by fan voting and will be announced on a one-hour...
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January 29, 2011 6:34 PM
(AP) - Doron Lamb scored 19 points, including a pair of crucial baskets to halt a late Georgia rally, and No. 14 Kentucky held off the Bulldogs 66-60 on Saturday. The Wildcats (16-4, 4-2 Southeastern Conference) avenged a loss at Georgia three weeks ago by clamping down on the cold-shooting...
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January 29, 2011 4:59 PM
If revenge was on their minds, you could see it in the first half.
From the time the game started, Kentucky was in control.
Kentucky leads Georgia 39-24 at the break, with Doron Lamb leading the way off the bench with 11 points. Lamb has hit three three-pointers....
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January 16, 2011 6:52 PM
If John Calipari could find a sliver of the consistency from the rest of his reserves as he's getting from the first guy off the Wildcats bench, he'd be a happy man.
Calipari has little to show for his season-long search for contributors from a short Kentucky bench.
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January 11, 2011 10:46 PM
(AP) - When Doron Lamb set a Kentucky freshman scoring record with 32 points in a victory over Winthrop last month, coach John Calipari didn't get too excited, saying he wasn't sure how long the mark would hold up. It didn't even last a month. Terrence Jones, coming off the...
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January 4, 2011 4:02 PM
There are so many reasons why this Kentucky team has gotten better since they first threw the ball up.
Some players have already exceeded logical expectations. You could fill in the blanks with a number of UK players, but Josh Harrellson obviously would win that award.
But, if...
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December 28, 2010 9:06 PM
(AP) - Kentucky sure looks ready for Louisville.
Terrence Jones scored 18 points, Brandon Knight added 17 points and eight assists and the 11th-ranked Wildcats rolled by Coppin State 91-61 Tuesday night in their final tuneup before a showdown with the rival Cardinals on New Year's Eve.
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December 28, 2010 7:55 PM
Kentucky jumped out to a 13-2 lead over Coppin State with five different Wildcats scoring in the first three minutes and never looked back. The Cats lead the Eagles 40-19 at halftime.
Michael Harper, the leading scorer for the Eagles, was out for this game with an injury and...
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December 27, 2010 6:20 PM
The landscape has changed for a typical college basketall star. Most freshmen expect to play early, leave early and spend as little time on the bench as possible in between.
That's why John Calipari knows he's got a special player in Doron Lamb, a McDonalds All-American who, despite proving...
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December 27, 2010 3:16 PM
The UK men's basketball team swept the Southeastern Conference's weekly awards this week as Doron Lamb was named SEC Player of the Week and Brandon Knight was named the SEC Freshman of the Week as announced by the league office on Monday.
Lamb, a 6-4 guard from Queens, N.Y.,...
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December 22, 2010 5:07 PM
(AP) - The last time Doron Lamb couldn't crack the starting lineup, the Kentucky freshman guard was in eighth grade. The next season, he led his team in scoring, a "take that" he still relishes to this day. Five years later, Lamb again finds himself on the bench during the...
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December 22, 2010 3:02 PM
(AP) - Kentucky's Doron Lamb set a school record for most points in a game by a freshman, pouring in 32 as the 13th-ranked Wildcats rolled by Winthrop 89-52 on Wednesday.
Lamb broke the record of 31 set by Jamal Mashburn on Feb. 3, 1991, against Georgia on a...
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December 22, 2010 2:00 PM
Scorching hot shooting has Kentucky ahead of Winthrop 51-32 through one half of Wednesday's matinee game at Rupp Arena.
Doron Lamb and Brandon Knight have scored 17 points a piece for the Cats, who shot 62 percent from the field in the first half including 10-of-14 from behind the...
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December 4, 2010 1:41 PM
Big time early season game that has seen 9 ties and 8 lead changes as the Cats lead North Carolina 42-40 at the half.
It's been a game of runs. After falling behind on a 22-9 run, the Cats finished the first 20 minutes with an 8-1 run to...
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December 3, 2010 8:14 PM
Doron Lamb grew up liking North Carolina but they didn't recruit him. It's easy to read between the lines. He knows 3 of the Tar Heels and athletes enjoy showing someone, hey you made a mistake on me. Lamb might be new to the Bluegrass, but he gets it. The...
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November 30, 2010 10:33 PM
It was a tale of two halves for the Cats and don't think Boston didn't notice.
"All I can say is that must have been one heck of a halftime speech," said Boston coach Patrick Chambers. "I'm going to have to ask him for a copy of that."
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November 22, 2010 8:02 PM
How much juice will the Cats, now 3-0 after beating Oklahoma 76-64 have for Tuesdays game?
Cal knows how tired his team is.
"I will put a lot of Gatorade in their bodies," says Cal.
The best line from Cal is something True Blue fans were used...
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November 20, 2010 12:56 AM
UK notes. Check out Darius Miller's all around game. The Cats are averaging 8 blocks a game.
-- Kentucky improves to 2-0 on the season. Portland dropped its first game and is 3-1. -- UK is 2-0 all-time against Portland. -- The Wildcats are now 6-1 against schools comprising...
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