From UK Athletics: Tickets for the 2011 Big Blue Madness at Rupp Arena will be available Saturday, Oct. 1, at 7 a.m., at the Memorial Coliseum ticket windows on Euclid Avenue and online at UKathletics.com and Ticketmaster.com. Madness, the first open practice opportunity for Kentucky’s 2011-12 men’s and women’s basketball teams, is Friday, Oct. 14. [...]

John Calipari believes conference expansion – perhaps to his proposed super conferences – is inevitable. On Sunday, the idea of expansion took another official step. Texas A&M, long reported to be moving from the Big 12, is officially headed to the Southeastern Conference. The SEC Presidents and Chancellors, acting unanimously, announced Sunday that Texas A&M [...]

The Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook, described as the most comprehensive college basketball publication in the world, recently released its 2011 Blue Ribbon Preseason All-America Teams with two Wildcats, Jones and Davis, making the list.

The Kentucky basketball team held its third team practice of the season Thursday at the Joe Craft Center before John Calipari hit the recruiting road again.

From UK Athletics: LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky men’s basketball program has released additional televised non-conference games for the 2011-12 season, including the annual Blue-White scrimmage and both exhibition games.  CBS Sports will televise five games, adding the North Carolina (Dec. 3) and Louisville (Dec. 31) games to the three UK conference games [...]