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Post-game player videos from the UK locker room after Kentucky’s 71-64 loss to Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament.

Anthony Davis

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Covered the post-game press conference in interview room, so could not get locker room video after UK’s nine-point win over LSU at the New Orleans Arena.

Thanks to Nation of Blue, which was on the spot and shot interviews of Doron Lamb, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Marquis Teague and Darius Miller.

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Videos from today’s Kentucky basketball media opportunity at the Craft Center.

John Calipari says he doesn’t really care for the SEC Tournament, but “we’ll be there.” He talks about Anthony Davis’ development and Orlando Antigua being mentioned as a possible head coach for job openings. Darius Miller talks about the tournament and what it meant to win MVP honors at least year’s tourney. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist talks about being named first-team All-SEC.

Anthony Davis was not available. The same day the freshman center won Player of the Year honors in the SEC, he was out of town because of a death in his family.

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The two hot UK topics for today’s Big Blue Links are the one player who said he is staying, though few may believe him, and the one player who is unexpectedly leaving.

Almost as big as Kentucky clinching its 45th SEC title over the weekend was Michael Kidd-Gilchrist’s comment to a question in which the freshman said he was definitely returning for his sophomore season. MKG later threw some water on that with a tweet. Then John Calipari on Monday (rightly) indicated that there’s a long time between now and the time players must declare for the draft in June.

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BTW: When told of this, Anthony Davis just smiled, shook his head and said, “LeBron is LeBron.”

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Check out the Herald-Leader fans gallery from the UK-Florida game.

Big Blue Links for Thursday:

• Players stepping up as Cats are clicking, writes Aaron Smith of Kernel.
• Kidd-Gilchrist a virtuoso again, writes Matt May of Cats Pause.
• MKG excelling in all areas, writes Jordan Schultz of Huffington Post.
• Davis making case to be nation’s No. 1, says Jake Curtis of Chronicle.
• This is Calipari’s best team, says my notes column.
• After flattening Florida, UK looks for challenge, writes Jerry Tipton of H-L.
• Basketball stats to get ready for Vandy, from Herald-Leader.
• Kidd-Gilchrist gives Davis a soothing feeling, says Sun’s Keith Taylor.
• Teague now knows UK is “my” team, writes Larry Vaught of A-M.
• Teague keeps improving, writes Jon Hale of KyForward.

Kentucky freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist talked to the media before today’s practice.

Post-game player videos from Kentucky’s 69-44 win over Tennessee last night at Rupp Arena.

Anthony Davis talks about the first half scuffled that resulted in the freshman center receiving a technical foul.

Terrence Jones talks about how well the team is playing, putting back-to-back wins over LSU (by 24) and Tennessee (by 25).

Marquis Teague talks about his improvement and receiving praise from John Calipari.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist talks about how this team is a band of brothers.

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Kentucky basketball player notes:

Twany Beckham: Has played just five minutes in two SEC games. Still has not taken a shot this season.

Anthony Davis: His 11 points against Alabama is his lowest total since he scored 10 against Lamar on December 28. Davis has blocked 26 shots in five SEC games, including four against the Crimson Tide. He did have a career-high four steals on Saturday. His two field goals on Saturday is his lowest total since he went one-of-two against Penn State on November 19.

Missed his first seven shots against Alabama before a follow dunk off a Marquis Teague miss with 4:43 left gave UK a 29-24 lead. He end up one-of-nine from the floor in the first half. His dunk off a fast break with 14:50 left in the second half, making it 49-43 Kentucky, was his only credited shot of the second half. He blocked an Alabama shot with seven seconds left and made two important free throws with 4.5 seconds remaining. With 6:30 left in the first half, he had missed his only field goal attempt, was one-of-four from the foul line and had one rebound.

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Here come the UK-Alabama post-game player interviews.

Anthony Davis

Terrence Jones

Doron Lamb

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist