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Before practice on this Sunday, UK coach John Caliapri met with the media, where in this video he talks about Monday night’s opportunity for the school’s 2,000th win, and playing against former assistant, Brusier Flint, now the head coach at Drexel, which just happens to be Monday’s foe. Cal brings out the “happiness is in direct porportion to the other coach’s misery” quote again, but he doesn’t throw in the “they can’t pay me enough.” He also talks about how important it was to beat North Carolina to 2,000.

Here is Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell’s opening comments after his team’s 34-point win over Louisville before a crowd of 7,323 at Meorial Coliseum.

Louisville coach Jeff Walz after his team committed 38 turnovers and surrendered 101 points.

Here are UK women Amber Smith, Victoria Dunlap and Carly Morrow (left to right) talking about the victory.

Updated Kentucky game-by-game basketball stats in Excel files:

• Here is the file of UK game-by-game individual stats, using Google Docs.

• Here is the file of UK game-by-game team stats, using Google Docs.

Big Blue Links for Sunday:

Jerry Tipton of the H-L writes game story on UK win over Austin Peay: “When cheerleaders later carried the giant flag with the interlocking “U” and “K” onto the court and the pep band struck up the theme to the movie 2001, this monolithic symbol of Kentucky basketball moved fans only to stand and clap as if required to sing Jingle Bells for the 2,000th time.”

Wildcat Blue Blog thinks Memphis writers are stalking Calipari: “If you think Tiger Woods is having a tough time from his ex-dalliances, you clearly have not met John Calipari’s bitter ex’s. If you thought that Lindsey Lohan and Samantha Ronson had knock down, drag them out breakups, you never witnessed the drama from John Calipari’s exes. If you thought that lady that kept breaking into David Letterman’s house was wacky, well that does not even touch the level of wackiness from John Calipari’s exes.”

Here’s the Herald-Leader photo slide show of UK win over Austin Peay.

Jennifer Smith reports that Victoria Dunlap is probable for today’s game with U of L: ” Victoria Dunlap, who suffered a concussion in practice a week ago, was upgraded from questionable to probable by Coach Matthew Mitchell on Saturday afternoon. The 6-foot-1 junior, UK’s leading scorer and rebounder, went through a full practice on Saturday.”

Continue reading ‘BBL: Men ready for milestone; Women ready for U of L’

DeMarcus Cousins described his post-game ensemble as “Peter Parker Swag.” You decide:

This is sophomore Darius Miller after the game today at Rupp.

(H-L photo/Pablo Alcala)

Some stats and notes from Kentucky’s 90-69 win over Austin Peay:

• The Cats wre a perfect 18-of-18 from the foul line. That’s the best showing there since going 18-for-18 against Utah iin the 2003 NCAA Tournament.

• Kentucky averaged 1.313 points per possession, second to the 1.324 the Cats averaged at Indiana last week.

• The Cats shot 50.8 percent, the seventh time this year they have topped the 50 percent mark.

• UK made eight of 12 three-pointers for 66.7 percent. That’s the best beyond the arc, on 12 or more attempts, since going 13 of 19 for 68.4 percent at Alabama on Feb. 26, 2005.

• Austin Peay averaged 1.005 points per possession, the fourth team to better the 1.0 mark on the Cats this year.

• Kentucky has forced just 20 turnovers in the past two games. Indiana turned it over just nine times. Austin Peay turned it over 11 times.

• DeMarcus Cousins has made nine of 10 free throws over the last two games.

Continue reading ‘Stats and notes from UK win over Austin Peay’

This is UK’s Patrick Patterson after his 21 points and nine rebounds helped the Cats earn win 1,999.

Here is Kentucky coach John Calipari and his opening comments after the Cats beat Austin Peay 90-69 at Rupp Arena.