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Cats hope to use SEC Tournament loss as motivation for NCAAs

NEW ORLEANS – As Kentucky reeled off 24 straight wins, the debate among Big Blue fans and analysts everywhere, especially during the latter point, focused on whether the top-ranked Wildcats needed to lose a game before trying...

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SEC Tournament live blog: Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt (championship)

NEW ORLEANS -- Join us Sunday as CoachCal.com and UKathletics.com team up for a live interactive blog for the Kentucky-Vanderbilt game at 1 p.m. ET. We’ll detail the action throughout the afternoon, live from New Orleans Aren...

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UK Florida notes: Teague feels like a leader, plays like one in resilient performance

After what he called one of his worst games of the season, the freshman point guard was wearing the disappointment on his sleeve. Just about everyone on the team noticed, so John Calipari called him into his hotel room Friday n...

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Weathering punches, delivering knockout blow marks of a champion

The Cats, one proverbial knee to the ground, withstood Florida’s best basketball this season and still won Saturday in the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament, 74-71. Just when you thought Kentucky had finall...

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Third time nearly a charm for Florida, but UK overcomes

The SEC’s two most highly ranked teams went toe-to-toe in New Orleans Arena in a game more befitting of a semifinal of an NCAA Regional than a conference tournament. Absorbing haymaker after haymaker, No. 1 Kentucky (32-1) ad...

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Video: Cats say they had ‘will to win’ in victory over Florida

NEW ORLEANS -- Anthony Davis described it as a will to win. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist said they never panicked. And Terrence Jones believes they locked down on defense in the second half. Hear what some of the Cats had to say abou...

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