The University of Kentucky will play the second ... Alabama, Oklahoma and Missouri. Kentucky is 10-0 at home this season in 20,500-seat Rupp Arena, 0-2 on the road and 2-1 on neutral floors.
Makenzie Farmer of De Soto High School's basketball team has been named the KMBC-HyVee Athlete of the Week. Farmer holds school records for assists and steals and recently scored her 1,000th point for the Wildcats.
In battles against John Calipari, Dennis Gates now has the upper hand. The Missouri Tigers head coach won for the second time in his career as a head coach ag
The Tigers are 15-3 (4-1 Southeastern Conference), their best start since the program’s final season in the Big 12 (2011-12). They upset then-No. 1 Kansas at Mizzou Arena last month, and this past week they stunned No. 5 Florida in Gainesville.
On Saturday, the conference then saw three different Top 25 ranked-vs.-ranked matchups take place all across the SEC, headlined by a Top 10 showdown in Lexington. Each of those games also lived up to the hype as well, especially that aforementioned contest inside Rupp Arena on Saturday.
Arkansas coach John Calipari is under a lot of heat after his team suffered another loss. On Saturday, the Razorbacks were handed their fourth straight defeat and Calipari remains winless this season in the Southeastern Conference with a 0-4 record.
Appalachian St. at Marshall, 1 p.m. Bryant at Mass.-Lowell, 1 p.m. Bucknell at Navy, 1 p.m. CCSU at Fairleigh Dickinson, 1 p.m. Davidson at St. Bonaventure, 1 p.m. Fairfield at Canisius, 1 p.m. Manhattan at Niagara, 1 p.m. Penn at Cornell, 1 p.m. UMBC at Maine, 1 p.m. Wagner at Mercyhurst, 1 p.m. Army at Boston U., 2 p.m.
Saturday’s win included two Tigers joining the 1,000 point club, with Caleb Grill and Tamar Bates hitting the mark for their careers. Grill tied Mark Mitchell with an MU-best 17 points, capping off his night with a steal and dunk to put Mizzou up 20 with 1:30 left.
A Summerset woman was convicted of seven federal criminal offenses for sexual exploitation of a minor. Emily Nicole Yeary, 26, was sentenced to a total of 40 years in federal prison. She is charged with several charges,