Darius Miller

LEXINGTON — If Kentucky coach John Calipari is right, last year’s NIT season was “the beginnings of success” for the upcoming season for the Wildcats. “What we’re about to undertake has never been done before....

LEXINGTON — Kentucky coach John Calipari may have completed another No. 1 recruiting class this week when Dakari Johnson, Julius Randle and Dominique Hawkins all signed to play with the Wildcats and joined fall signees Aaron Harrison, Andrew...

While many were expecting Alex Poythress to be a certain one-and-done player at Kentucky and likely NBA draft lottery pick, the UK freshman said that was never his expectation about his college career. He says that’s why he would not call his...

This could be the day that Kentucky’s 2013-14 basketball roster starts taking a more definite shape. From the time UK’s season ended with a NIT loss at Robert Morris, speculation has been rampant about who will — and who will not...

The first time Kevin Boyle saw Dakari Johnson was the summer of the player’s eighth-grade year when his family had left Kentucky and was looking for a new school for him. Boyle was the successful coach at  Elizabeth (N.J.) St. Patrick — he...

Ed Isaacson is learning to appreciate more how Kentucky coach John Calipari has put the Wildcats in position to win annually despite have a roster that continually turns over. “What he does is develop the mental attitude the guys need to be NBA...

Former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl thought Kentucky’s home-court win streak would end this year and said so in October. Yet the current ESPN college basketball analyst thought it would likely be Florida or Missouri, not Baylor, that gave UK coach...

If Kyle Wiltjer ever lacks for inspiration at Kentucky, all he has to do is think about his long-time mentor, NBA all-star Steve Nash. Nash is a former teammate of Wiltjer’s father, Greg, and has been an inspiration to the Kentucky sophomore for...

The night Anthony Davis announced he was leaving Kentucky to pursue a career in the National Basketball Association, he admitted that he had always dreamed of winning an Olympic gold medal. He had no idea then that instead of having to wait until 2016...

No one has been busier covering college basketball recruiting than Adam Zagoria — and that means he’s seen plenty of the recruiting targets Kentucky coach John Calipari has in the 2013 and 2014 classes. Like most recruiting analysts, he sees...

The divorce becomes final tonight. The core unit and top six players from a Kentucky team that won 40 games in 38 attempts last season will be nothing but a lasting memory and remembered for its “gr8ness” on the court. Even though the...

Even though some NBA mock drafts have Kentucky forward Terrence Jones falling out of the lottery in tonight’s draft, ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas thinks Jones will still go in the middle of the first round. “I don’t...