Month: April 2021

Third Region winner Muhlenberg County was eliminated at the Boys Sweet 16 today, falling to Highlands 88-60. Nash Divine led the Mustangs with 21 points as Muhlenberg County finishes the season 19-2. Highlands will move on to Friday night’s last quarterfinal game to face McCracken County . In the second afternoon game, McCracken County fought off Bullitt East and won 68-56. Noah Dumas and Ian Hart each had 14 points […]

ESPN reports Western Kentucky’s Charles Bassey announced today he is forgoing the remainder of his college eligibility and entering the NBA Draft. He averaged 17.6 points, 11.6 rebounds and 3.1 blocks this season. He was named Conference USA Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year and he is one of five finalists for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award. He was also named an honorable […]

photo credit: U of L athletics The University of Louisville will be one of eight teams that will play in the 2022 Maui Jim Maui Invitational. The Cardinals will be joined by Arkansas, Arizona, Cincinnati, Creighton, Ohio State, San Diego State and Texas Tech for the tournament on Nov. 21-23, 2022, at the historic Lahaina Civic Center on the island of Maui. It will be the Cardinals first appearance in […]

University of Kentucky women’s head coach Kyra Elzy was named Wednesday as the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association’s Division One Rookie Coach of the Year. Elzy led Kentucky to 18 wins, the most by any first year coach in the nation. UK finished the season 18-9 and an appearance in the NCAA tournament.

SEC action this evening has Kentucky at Mississippi State in the first of a three game series. Also this evening, top ranked Vanderbilt is at LSU. In other action: Western Kentucky opens a weekend Conference USA series at Florida International and Murray State begins a three game OVC series at Tennessee Tech.